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

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.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

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