“I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.”
“Love is a funny thing. It can make you the happiest person in the world when it's good, but when it goes bad, it can crush you beyond recognition.”
“You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile.”
“It's funny how there can be something special about that one person isn't it?”
“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”
“The reality that someone you love has died is its own tragedy. But it's separate, isn't it, from the way it happened?”