Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for Twilight, although I got some in there. That was fun! There is just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It is just different styles.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they are friends. We are the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

I used to watch The Waltons and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It is a pretty easy audience, and that is been around for ages.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I have got a dry sense of humor.

I have never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There is his humor and intelligence, too, and he is really cute, all those things - but if you do not respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I am still looking for that.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.