Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.