Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.

I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

Humor is very important as people have forgotten to laugh at themselves these days. They should not lose the funny bones.

Growing up my brother showed me a lot of Cohen brothers movies, I guess that's where I get my dark humor from.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.