Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.