Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. |
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. |
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. |
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. |
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. |
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. |
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. |
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. |
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. |
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. |
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? |
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. |
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. |
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. |
Don't get it right, just get it written. |
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. |
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. |
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. |
Love is what you've been through with somebody. |
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? |