"I dread the word 'art,'" Williams said in 1989 when discussing his craft with the AP. "That's what we used to do every night before we’d go on with 'Waiting for Godot.' We’d go, 'No art. Art dies tonight.' We’d try to give it a life, instead of making "Godot" so serious. It’s cosmic vaudeville staged by the Marquis de Sade."

Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams, mayormente conocido como el médico de la risoterapia (Washington D. C., 28 de mayo de 1945),​ es un médico estadounidense, activista social, diplomático y escritor.