„Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.“

— Robert A. Heinlein
„“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.”“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„We cannae just rush in, ye ken.""Point o' order, Big Man. Yejust rush in. Wejust rush in.""Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta knowye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.“
— Terry Pratchett
„Doc says the Company set-up is just one big happy family, and the idea that it is a non-profit corporation is the biggest joke since women were invented.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.“
— Robert Frost
„Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another“
— Morrie Schwartz
„Yes, I was a funny guy for a long time. When I started out, I just wanted to write humor. I wrote humor for kids. My very first book was called How to be Funny. It was about how to get big laughs at the dinner table and how to get laughs in school. Parents hated this book. I wrote joke books, like A Hundred and One Monster Jokes, and other joke books for years. I did maybe a hundred of them. I had a great time, and I did this humor magazine called Bananas for ten years. It was sort of Mad Magazine, but it was all in color, and it was great. That was all I ever wanted to do. I couldn't believe it. When that ended, I figured I would just coast for the rest of my career. That was it. I'd already done what I wanted to do. I had no idea what was coming up.“
— R.L. Stine
„What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.“
— Bob Dylan
„Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald