Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
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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 think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
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 a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
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.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
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