“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.”

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains… if only one could leave this life slowly!”

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”

“Inventory:”Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”