I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
“Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.”
“The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.”