I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

The imaginative artist willy-nilly influences his time. If he understands his responsibility and acts on it-taking the art seriously always, himself never quit…

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.