“I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.”

“Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.”

“I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.”

“One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.”

“Well, I couldn't see what was to be,
So I just stood there laughing.”

“They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him”

“It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.”

“These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes,
Nothing remains quite the same.
Through all of the islands and all of the highlands,
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”

“I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”