[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.

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.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

There is no true reality. It is just an interplay of your consciousness, awareness, thoughts, and actions.

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

Drawing is your understanding of form.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I would love to be in Kansas.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.