A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.