Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.