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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

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.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

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

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

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

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.