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.

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.

The fraud delights my soul, and if he is big and clever and conceals his fraudulence for years, I am all the more impressed and entertained by his achievement.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

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

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

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.