Quotes by Thurber, James

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling >>

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare >>

Love is what you've been through with somebody. >>

Quotations about Cosmos

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. >>

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire >>

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolu >>

Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.

Thurber, James