Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.