David Levithan Quotes

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

I am a walking joke.

Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.