Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

The angel in me loves the devil in me.

To get the social acceptance is the difficult and tricky thing.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.