“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

“The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”

“The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.”

“A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.”

“The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing”

“I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.”

“Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?”