Alexandra Bracken Quotes

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

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

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

You just can't make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can't just be like, 'I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was more rude than a wolfcat - an animal I've made up and decided is rude.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares?" "I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid." She waved her hand. The moon blew away. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.