Nick Harkaway Quotes

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

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

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

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

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

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

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.