People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.