Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.