#Wit

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs."

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."

"There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"Impropriety is the soul of wit."

"If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?"

"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]"

"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

"Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

"Ack!"I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me."

"Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth."

"Do you like to slide?"His voice was eager.Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights.""Oh."His polite tone had returned."I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction."He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him."Especially,"I added, "as I've grown taller."

"There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'."

"I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way."