Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.