The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.