Elif Batuman Quotes

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

If you're able to put humor into something, just like it happens in life, you might get away with it.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.