“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”

“When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.”