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.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.