Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Everything can be satirized.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Charitably, you could say it was a little long. In fact, it was a lot long.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.