Humor is the ability to see ...

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
 Ned Rorem

Quotes from the same author

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
 Ned Rorem
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
 Ned Rorem
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
 Ned Rorem
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
 Ned Rorem