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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.