There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient.