And regardless of the fact that in this country certainly in the arts we treat comedy as a second-class citizen I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value but as the craft of it being funny.
I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.