A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Know thyself! That was the best joke ever perpetrated. A steaming universe of germ-cells, a maelstrom of animal forces, of which he himself, his personality, was only the collective gleam.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.

My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

"My angel, oh my angel, perhaps our whole earthly existence is now but a pun to you, or a grotesque rhyme, something like "dental" and "transcendental" (remember?), and the true meaning of reality, of that piercing term, purged of all our strange, dreamy, masquerade interpretations, now sounds so pure and sweet that you, angel, find it amusing that we could have taken the dream so seriously (although you and I did have an inkling of why everything disintegrated at one furtive touch — words, conventions of everyday life, systems, persons — so, you know, I think laughter is some chance little ape of truth astray in our world."

A joke is a very serious thing.

I think maybe heaven is a sea of untranslatable jokes. Only everyone is laughing.

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

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

When you hear a good joke, this is the system that kicks in and produces the giggly face.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures — provided we will but take a joke as we find it

Jokes can be handled in such a way that any reader who is not altogether lacking in discernment can scent something far more rewarding in them than in the crabbed and specious arguments of some people we know.