Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.