The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.