“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”
“As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.”
“Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.”
“Jokes are funny only in context. There is no such thing as abstract clever word play. Words have meaning in the world in which we live, not in the abstract. Take away the politics, and there is no joke. The joke wouldn't make any sense. if the joke is funny, it's funny precisely because it's racist and sexist.”
“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”
“Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.”