There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

What fresh hell is this?

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

[On Oscar Wilde:]

"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.

[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]