"Humor is just another defense against the universe." – Mel Brooks

"So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear." – Chogyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, 115, 1973, Shamballa Press