William Gaddis Quotes

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.