Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

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

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

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

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.