People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
