A Liberal Mind Is A Mind That

Humor Is The Instinct For Taking Pain Playfully.

A Joke Is Not A Thing But A Process, A Trick You Play On The Listener's Mind. You Start Him Off Toward A Plausible Goal, And Then By A Sudden Twist You Land Him Nowhere At All Or Just Where He Didn't Expect To Go.

A Poet In History Is Divine, But A Poet In The Next Room Is A Joke

Emotion Is The Surest Arbiter Of A Poetic Choice, And It Is The Priest Of All Supreme Unions In The Mind

Laughter Puts Your Brain, Your Central Nervous System And Your Whole Being Into A State Of Free Play.