Who said “A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”?

“Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.”

“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”

“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”

“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”

“Man is not made for defeat.”

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”