The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.