“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”

“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.”

“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”

“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”

“Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.”

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”

“And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.”

“Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.”

“Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.”

“Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.”

“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.”

“I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.”

“Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.”

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”

“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”

“Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.”

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

“Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.”