When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

I Didn't Come Here to Argue (1969), "It's a Funny Thing About Me, but Not Very," page 51.