There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

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

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.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.