Calvin Trillin Quotes

For me, humor is everything!

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

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.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I like humor.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I'm not very funny!

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I think I have always had a little humor.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

If possible, be funny.