| Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
| It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. |
| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
| People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. |
| Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
| There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. |
| We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. |
| It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. |
