Rick Riordan Quotes

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

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

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.