“Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasn't laughter.
He never saw Molly again.”

“it is always a genial laughter. Not at mere weakness, at misery or poverty; never. No man who can laugh, what we call laughing, will laugh at these things. It is some poor character only desiring to laugh, and have the credit of wit, that does so. Laughter means sympathy.”

“The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.”

“I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don't laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.”

“Jagger had gone through there. Harley also went through. Somewhere he did not know, somewhere whose existence he had not guessed.… Somewhere that wasn't the house.…”

“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”

“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”

“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”

“He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite thee again and again gazes at thee and hears thee sweetly laughing.”
Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem.

“Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”