"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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Source: Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. Collecting Himself. Book by James Thurber, 1989.
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