The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

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.

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.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.

It is impossible to be successful and prosperous if you cannot organize people to achieve maximum results.

I must be alive, " Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

We will die, but art will remain.

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.