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

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

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.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.