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

[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.

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

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

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

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.