Famous Quotes / Max Eastman
Max Eastman: "A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."
Expect | Goal | Joke | Just |
Land | Listeners | Mind | Nowhere |
Plausible | Play | Process | Start |
Sudden | Thing | Toward | Trick |
Twist | Where |