“If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.”

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”

“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”

“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”

“In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.”

“Humor is healing.”

“My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.”

“It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.”

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”