[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.