“You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.”

“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”

“But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get out of hand. A relationship based on jokes invites jokes; jokes about anything -- and jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth.”

“Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.”

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.”

“Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious”