Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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.
I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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.