An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

When the heart gets hurt, It always rains.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.