It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

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.

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

I am the donation to the foundation.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'