Great comedy calls large matters into question.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.