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

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

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

[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.