Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I like humor.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

If possible, be funny.

Humor is my default mode.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

There's always a source for humor.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.