Horace Walpole Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.