“I loathe the expression ‘What makes him tick.’ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.”
—James Thurber

This entry was posted on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 6:00 am and is filed under Quotes o' the Day.