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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.