If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.