“In the end, everything is a gag.”

“And I am going to have another opportunity. I am going to have a week-end with him at his home in Easton, a week-end with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe.”

“You need Power, only when you wantto do something harmfulotherwiseLove is enough to get everything done.”

“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”

“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

“In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane”

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”