"That's the key though, isn't it?" Ben said. "You have to find something amusing of your own volition. Make your own sense of humor, so to say." Ben certainly wouldn't be able to play the grinning fool quite as much as he did if he didn't have a well developed sense of the ridiculous about the twists and turns that had gotten him here.

"Life isn't a Buster Keaton film. Often, at least."