Quotes about humor

It had been a very long night, and the morning didn't seem to be an improvement.

It wasn't a large village, and wouldn't have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village.

I'm surely going to regret this, she told herself, displaying considerable foresight.

'Well ... welcome. My house is your house', his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, 'although only in a metaphorical sense, you understand, because I would not, much as I always admired your straightforward approach, and indeed your forthright stance, actually give you my house, it being the only house I have, and therefore the term is being extended in an, as it were, gratuitous fashion —'

The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse.

'I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.'

'Good,' said Snibril.

'I'll do it myself.'

'Waiting is the worst part,' said Pismire.

'No it isn't,' said Owlglass, who wasn't even being trusted to hold a sword. 'I expect that having long sharp swords stuck in you is the worst part.'

'Stop that!' he shouted. 'You're soldiers! You're not supposed to fight!'

I received other options but nothing ever happened and I developed what I call Asimov’s First Law of Hollywood, which goes as follows:

“Whatever happens, nothing happens!”

It is amazing how the young women flock about me now that I’m old and harmless. Where were they when I could have taken wicked advantage of their affection?

I shuddered at the thought of living in Florida, though, a place where six inches is a high elevation.

Arthur and I share similar views on science fiction, on science, on social questions, and on politics. I have never had occasion to disagree with him on any of these things, which is a credit to his clear-thinking intelligence.