I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

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

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Don’t drown dreams in the sea of yearningsMake your own choicesWake up to catch those cloudsBe the person you want to be!

You would be better off standing alone in solitude than to fake your way into standing with millions of negative minds. Peace of mind only lies in one's true identity.

And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.-Haymitch Abernathy

Luck is the devil with a halo

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.