My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

God damn" according to Helen Thurber. National Register of Historic Places: his childhood Thurber House in Ohio and the Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House in Fairfield County Connecticut. Robert Lopresti)
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber 1994 (ed.

James Grover Thurber (December 8 1894 – November 2 1961) was an American author cartoonist and celebrated wit. One of the most popular humorists of his time Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people.