"Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them — and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug, — push it a little — crowd it a little — weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.

- "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts"

Being funny is one of the ultimate weapons a person can have in human society.

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.

Some people use laughter as a weapon. It's all very funny until someone loses an eye. But then I guess it just makes the joke even funnier, because you never see it coming.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense — the creative act.

The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it

The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?