Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

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

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

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.