Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

It wasn't too difficult to see that [Ian] Paisley would never do anything positive.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

We are born poets. we become orators.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

I was an opening act for 10 years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.