“They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour.”

“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?”

“Again, it's fine to not agree with someone's sense of humour, but calling me a fascist, how is that helping anyone?”

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”

“The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. I mean, who remembers "Zorba?" Nobody remembers "Zorba."”

“All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.”

“In the armoury of man, charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing - like a sense of humour, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.”

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”