Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

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

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.