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People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.