Amuse Yourself

“The main obligation is to amuse yourself.”
― S.J. Perelman

“If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.”
― S.J. Perelman

“You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be
working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.”
― S.J. Perelman

“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
― S.J. Perelman

“A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.”
― S.J. Perelman

“The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.”
― S.J. Perelman