Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.' Behold...
Dr. Van Helsing, Dracula (Bram Stoker)
I'd never found before such a precise description of true laughter.















