Good comedy is never frivolous. It's based on human experience, on human adventure, on human feelings. So it has to be profound.

Wit is sharper than the sharpest dagger.

You could never give your mother as much as she gave you.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

They shall not live who have not tasted death. They only sing who are struck dumb by God.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable. In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woma…

The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some…