The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

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.