“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”

Planet Without Laughter (1980)

Source: Shadow Kiss

High Times interview (2002)
Context: Usually, my witticisms are composed on the spot. They're simply intrinsic; an inseparable, integral, organic part of my writing process — doubtlessly because humor is an inseparable, integral part of my philosophical worldview. The comic sensibility is vastly, almost tragically, underrated by Western intellectuals. Humor can be a doorway into the deepest reality, and wit and playfulness are a desperately serious transcendence of evil. My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

"Creative aspect of language use"
Quotes 2000s, 2007-09, (3rd ed., 2009)

Source: The Importance of Living

Source: Color, Format and Abstract Art' (1977), pp. 99 – 105

"A Film from the Sixties"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)

William Lowther (September 21, 1986) "Americans laugh at their presidents -- not with them", The Toronto Star, p. B3.