The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.

Channing just projected this warmth and mirth. He was such a happy person. Channing was the kind of person that should've lived to be 100 years old.