Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

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

A smile is the universal welcome.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

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.

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

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.