I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.