Samræður forseta bandaríkjanna og Guðs:
"God is not Amusing, you said."
"Well? Is he?"
"You can look at the Creation, and dare to say that God is not amusing? Even Mr Henchman didn't make that mistake. Fish with two eyes on the same side of the head? Bushbabies, wallabies, apes? The sight of hippopotamus in love, or lobsters in the mating season, like two broken deckchairs trying to find erogenous zones, or through their eyes, human beings? Not amusing?"
"I meant that God is not amusing to us."
"You have never said anything as hurtful, or as deeply untrue. Why did I create the Unique dimension of laughter, unique to man alone, if I didn't wish my jokes to be appreciated? Laughter is a therapy, a balm, a deflater of all that is solemn and pompous. It is my most refined invention, my most sublime and sophisticated discovery, second only to love."

Tekið úr The old man & Mr Smith eftir Peter Ustinov