John Hodgman Quotes

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

The truth is always an abyss.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.