humor

"Why take the stairs when someone else can take them for you? Love is like a flight of stairs—somebody’s going to take them, so I may as well be unselfish and take the elevator."

"I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing."

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

"I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends."

"Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”“I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity."

"God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful..."

"Everything stinks till it’s finished."

"My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast."

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

"Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found something Eric did poorly."

"I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it."

"But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something."

"A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me."

"Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security,"I said. "It sucks."

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

"Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival."

"I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak."

"You used nunchucks on a moose?"Wolfe got a haunted look in his eyes. "I used all sorts of things on that bastard."

"'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh."