And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

I need you forever, for you are my teddy.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.