If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.