Art Quote by E. B. White

“ne plus ultra of interactivity: a surgeon operates on his own brain whilst filming and watching it through his phone”

— Dean Cavanagh

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many…

— James Thurber

“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I…

— Bob Thurber

“While I love most, not to say all, of James Thurber’s cartoons, there are a handful that seem especially”

— Michael Dirda

I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before…

— Shel Silverstein

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old…

— Harlan Cleveland

Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including…

— Tom Shales

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And…

— Lynne Truss

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets…

— Leo Rosten

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I…

— James Thurber

A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

— Sophy Burnham

“Despite an icy northeast wind huffing across the bay I sneak out after dark, after my mother falls asleep clutching her leather Bible, and…

— Bob Thurber