“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.”

“Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.”

“I think humour can be a very lethal weapon. You make somebody a laughing stock and you kill him. But most journalists don't do it. They get angry, which doesn't serve the purpose.”

“A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
“What can one do?”
“You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.””

“Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.”

“When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.”

“What are you?" I whispered.
He shrugged again.
"Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.”

“You have watched the Titans walk the Earth … and you have kept stride. Perhaps you are more like them than you realize. You exist … to give hope.”