Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

You have to choose your future regrets.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.