It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
I dont really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric… Im not operating on somebodys brain, you know what I mean? So I just think its all funny. – Harry Connick, Jr.
Be what you would seem to be – or, if youd like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Margaret Fuller