Humor undiluted is the most depressing of all phenomena. Humor must have its background of seriousness. Without this contrast there comes none of that incongruity which is the mainspring of laughter.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
