“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“Being able to make people laugh is great, but it takes on a different meaning if they are laughing at you, not with you.”

“People sometimes need to laugh, relax, and not take themselves so seriously.”

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.”

“You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?”

“Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction.”