"Not until the good Lord is. Oh don't look so terribly shocked, please. The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know what else He is except loving. And love has a lot to do with humour, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are ridiculous little animals wallowing in the fudge-bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humour."
"I never thought of God as humorous," said Father Stone.
"The Creator of the platypus, the camel, the ostrich, and man? Oh, come now!" Father Peregrine laughed.'
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, p.153.
