The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.