Top 61 Quotes by James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.