There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.