Robert Benchley Has A Style That Is

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.

There Is Something Self-defeating In The Too-conscious Pursuit Of Pleasure.

Dogs Laugh, But They Laugh With Their Tails. And A Tail Is An Awkward Thing To Laugh With, As You Can See By The Way They Bend Themselves Half Double In Extreme Hilarity Trying To Get That Rear-end Exuberance Forward Into The Main Scene Of Action. What Puts Man On A Higher Stage Of Evolution Is That He Has Got His Laugh On The Right End.

I Don't Know Why It Is We Are In Such A Hurry To Get Up When We Fall Down. You Might Think We Would Lie There And Rest For A While.

Classic Art Was The Art Of Necessity: Modern Romantic Art Bears The Stamp Of Caprice And Chance.