It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
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.