Aubrey

“It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.”
― James Thurber

“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
― James Thurber

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess. ”
― James Thurber

“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life."
"The firefly's ?" said the minstrel.
"The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks