“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy.”
“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.”
“By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.”
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant.”
“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.”
“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.”
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.”
“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
“Rain is grace; without rain, there would be no life.”
“Celebrity blinds; one can either see or be seen.”
“The essential self knows that it lives for ever.”
“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept.”
“Rain is the sky condescending to the earth.”
“Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.”
“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim.”