Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather." "Yeah." "And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.

Ironic things are interesting.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then you are able to accept more readily that it's fine to wear a cape. You can also accept that it's fine to be enormous and green, or to shoot arrows at aliens racing through the sky. It all makes sense if you've been able to laugh at it and with it.

I thought you might need a ride.' 'The headmaster's office called me a car.' He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.