Shura Quotes

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

I have a fun side and a serious side.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Funny is when you're serious.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

Ironic things are interesting.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.