I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.