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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
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.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
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.
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.