“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.”

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.”

“Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I can't really act. Ha ha." No one laughed.”

“What are you?"A man with a rope?""Ha-ha.”

“Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!”

“He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh.”