But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.
It's okay if you don't like me. Not everyone has good taste.
I don't hate you. I'm just not necessarily excited about your existence.
Nothing lasts forever. A good thing, considering the number of intolerable people about.
So just because the world ends, you can't dress fancy?
We're facing the apocalypse, there is not enough tea in the world to calm me.
How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks.
Learning money basics. Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
Ja, wir könnten jetzt was gegen den Klimawandel tun, aber wenn wir dann in 50 Jahren feststellen würden, dass sich alle Wissenschaftler doch vertan haben und es gar keine Klimaerwärmung gibt, dann hätten wir völlig ohne Grund dafür gesorgt, dass man selbst in den Städten die Luft wieder atmen kann, dass die Flüsse nicht mehr giftig sind, dass Autos weder Krach machen noch stinken und dass wir nicht mehr abhängig sind von Diktatoren und deren Ölvorkommen. Da würden wir uns schön ärgern.
"Your hair is the colour of dirt," she said. "It knows where it came from."
The sparrow flies south for winter.
What's life without a few dragons?
