There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.