“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh."[Afterword]”
“I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.”
“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”
“People want incongruous, impossible things.”
“I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”