Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.