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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I had a great ’70s. I survived it, and that’s always good news.

You’re entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.