“I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."

[(Robert Jacobs,, February 1976)]”

“If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.”

“The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.”

“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously … I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”

“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”

“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”

“I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”

“I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious,serious mistake.”

“Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.”