There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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