Nicolas Cage

And was the pursuit of the happiness after things in a marketplace, or was it a lifelong learning of the mind and the heart, which is what I think it was.

Right.

But I think a lot of it has been we think that we are deserving of happiness and that anything that's friction, difficult, oppositional, like castor oil, brewer's yeast and tofu, it's not for us.

So we're fat, happy.

We're dying of heart disease.

We have diabetes.

And we think we're happy, but we're not.

Mark Twain said, the source of laughter is not joy, but sorrow.

There is no laughter in heaven.

Mark Twain.

He's a famous American.

Famous American writer, yeah.

He wrote, yeah, he's a pretty funny dude.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

He also said, by the way, that it's not that the world is filled with fools.

It's just that lightning isn't distributed right.

It would be funny in a thousand years when no other humorist from the 19th century has any.

I mean, when they fired in the back of Lincoln's brain in Our American Cousin, which was a comedy, the line that got the laugh that gave Booth sort of the cover to shoot was, you sock-dologizing old man-trap.

Really?