Bennett Cerf

“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?”
― Bennett Cerf

“I can’t say this too often—that a little humor can make life worth living. That has always been my credo. Somebody once asked me, “What would you like your epitaph to be?” I’ve always said that I’d like it to be: “He left people a little happier than they were when he came into the room.”
― Bennett Cerf, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf