“They're making a joke of our universe”

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

“Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.”

“These are our kids… They're good kids… Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country… Those are our kids… They're our kids.”

“Necessity makes a joke of civilization.”

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

“Always warm up the audience with a joke…. If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke….”