Who said “Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous;…”?

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.”

“Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?”

“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”