“And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.”
“I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.”
“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."[Writer’s Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer’s Digest, February 1976)]”
“...it depends on whose reality you're using for rules. You just have to remember that, and then you can see that nothing should be taken absolutely seriously. Personally, I always like to use my own reality as a standard.”
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
“The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.”