Humor Is The Instinct For Taking Pain

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.

The Defining Function Of The Artist Is To Cherish Consciousness.

Humor Is The Instinct For Taking Pain Playfully.

The Worst Enemy Of Human Hope Is Not Brute Facts, But Men Of Brains Who Will Not Face Them.

Humor Is A Kind Of Emotional Chaos Told About Calmly And Quietly In Retrospect.there Is Always A Laugh In The Utterly Familiar.