A humorist tells himself every morning, I hope it's going to be a rough day. When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
Source: In Quotations to Cheer You Up When the World is Getting You Down, by Allen Klein, 1991.
-- Alan Coren, (Jun 27 1938-2007), British writer, satirist; He is a regular panelist on The News Quiz and Call My Bluff and writes both his own and the Notebook columns for The Times.