Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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.

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.