“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

Max Eastman

“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.”

Max Eastman

“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”

Max Eastman

“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”

Max Eastman

“Hegelism is like a mental disease—you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.”

Max Eastman