Great comedy calls large matters into question.
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.