Theo Van Gogh Quotes

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Humor is a very important part of leadership.

There's more than enough seriousness in the world.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

If I'm honest, I think everything is funny. You've just got to find the right way in. When I'm at my happiest and when I'm really on it, when I feel like I'm really on good form at the moment, everything can be funny.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

The thing I do best is laugh.