“At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”

“And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible and true, this was so far from the mark it was funny.”

“When I told her my love would stop her tears from falling, she started laughing. She laughed so hard she started crying. Damn. Double damn!”

“She's out from my life, I don't know whether to laugh or cry”

“all abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist.honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.”