Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind