In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

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

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.