“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”

“If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.”

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke”

“Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

“It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.”

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

“The problem with this new generation is, they take everything as joking as funny. Even they don't think about tomorrow's life will hold on.”

“It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.”