“Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.”
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious”
“Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.”
“For the first time he began to understand why Jesus had such compassion for the poor. Jesus could identify with them because they were treated with the same contempt as the religious officials and the law-obsessed hypocrites treated him.”
“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.”
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.”