“That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.”

“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.”

“So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.”

“A lot of the things you cry about in the present are the things you will laugh about in the future.”

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

“You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry”

“I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy.”

“I cry only for joy. I can see something beautiful and cry. And I'm not ashamed of it. After all, crying from joy is much better than from weakness.”

“What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.”

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”