Amanda Hocking Quotes

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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.'

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

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

I love to dance, but the flip side is that I can't dance.

What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

I never said I was consistent.