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.
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
[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.
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.