“Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question.”
“Kade usually found humor in the absurdities in life, because life itself was absurd.”
“The reason for thinking that there will be no 'last' philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.”
“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ”
“Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.”
“(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)”