Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

Imagine repeating the power words ‘love’ or ‘happiness’ for five minutes twice a day for the rest of your life, amazing things could happen.

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.