He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.