One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long peri…

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit …

Humour is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis legerit, hic sapiet. Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista somnia missa sibi.