“Laughter is a rescue. p.204”

“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

“Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.”

“Coming to my rescue?'
'Of course. It's what we do. I rescue you; you rescue me. We just take turns whenever the other needs it.”

“1. Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.
2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
3. Laughter is the bark of delight of a gregarious animal at the proximity of its kind.
4. Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
5. Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
6. Laughter is the emotion of tragic delight.
7. Laughter is the female of Tragedy.
8. Laughter is the strong elastic fish, caught in Styx, springing and flapping about until it dies.
9. Laughter is the sudden handshake of mystic violence and the anarchist.
10. Laughter is the mind sneezing.
11. Laughter is the one obvious commotion that is not complex, or in expression dynamic.
12. Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard and unchangeable.”

“the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.”

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”

“Design cannot rescue failed content.”

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

“My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.”