Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.