Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jules Pfeiffer

New York Cartoonist, Novelist and Playwright

"Imagination continually frustrates tradition. That is its function."

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. "

"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary."