The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.