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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

He who hesitates is poor.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

I only direct in self-defense.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.