David Foster Wallace Quotes

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I like the irony in my work.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

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.

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.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

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

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

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

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.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.