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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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.
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 very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
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 a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.