“I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“... continually shifting perspective ... including, always,
the side where we laugh at everything, including ourselves; and all with love-- love for ourselves with all imperfections, love for others and theirs, love for this crazy, delicious, brutal world in which we live.”
“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.”
Source: A Long, Long Sleep
“Live Theatre requires we sit together,
laugh and gasp together,
breathe together.
And as much as I am grateful for masks and social distancing
(they've kept me and you alive),
even those necessary lifesavers do get in the way
of the magnificent in-the-moment transitory creation
of that marvelous being
we call
an Audience.
We are starving for want of Live Audience.”
“Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion. Link arms and walk into any crowd, fake laughing like you own the world and you will!”
Source: The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
“She laughed again, but this laughter sounded like a recording of the last, too repetitive to be real.”
Source: Bestiary
“Just because someone likes to laugh, doesn't mean they have a good sense of humor. They could giggle every time they hear a fart, and for them hanging around a public bathroom would be like being in a comedy club. I should sell that person tickets to watch my ducks perform.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“To not laugh at a king’s joke is a grave offense. That grave has your headstone on it. Everybody musters a chuckle at a royal punchline—even the humble duck farmer.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“If we prove boring during the conversation after the film, our dates may say they had a lovely time, but let's just be friends. You can't buy love. You have to inspire it, partly through humor, the premier arena for advertising your creativity.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“People act differently when they're in love with different people. We tend to match our expressed interests and preferences to those of a desired individual.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature