“A child's laughter is the greatest sound in the world. A child's laughter in a cornfield is the creepiest sound in the world. -- ”

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. ”

“If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.”

“The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.”

“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, "that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter." There is no doubt: this laughter goes "far beyond joking, jeering, and ridicule." The two sisters stretched out on their bed are not laughing at anything concrete, their laughter has no object; it is an expression of being rejoicing at being... and in this ecstatic laughter he loses all memory, all desire, cries out to the immediate present of the world, and needs no other knowledge.”

“To laugh is to live profoundly... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, "that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter... it is an expression of being rejoicing at being... ”