47 Quotes by Larry Gelbart

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

You could say the network was beating up on you, and he acted as a very benign and positive kind of chief justice.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It’s the sheer quantity. It’s the Niagara of opinion, of information. It’s not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don’t hear the smoke detectors anymore.