'Perelman is the supreme lunatic humorist in the language British or American. He seems to know the vocabulary of every English writer from Macaulay to Woody Allen and uses the most unpredictable mixtures of them to produce mock-solemn commentaries on the absurdities of our times'

'S. J. Perelman was a uniquely gifted comic writer who perceived that we live in mad, bad and dangerous times, and helped make them a little more bearable for his readers'

'Feel a touch of Yulophobia coming on? What you need is one book and one only... guaranteed to burst your stuffing with chortles. How can you not want to read a story beginning thus: "It was ten days after my arrival in Penang in British Malaya that I first became postive I was talking to myself"? Happy chortling.'