Alvaro

“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way they monitor all conversation, their flashes of panic as irony or exaggeration eludes them, the relief with which they submit to the meaningless babble of unanimous laughter. The humorless can programme themselves to relish situations of human farce or slapstick — and that's about it. They are handicapped in the head, or mentally 'challenged', as Americans say (euphemism itself being a denial of humour). The trouble is that the challenge wins, every time, hands down. The humorless have no idea what is going on and can't make sense of anything at all.”
― Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

“When it rains out, it also rains in.”
― Don DeLillo, Mao II

“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?”
― Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste

“Writing, he'd come to see, was the spiritual disease of which it considered itself to be the cure;”
― Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat