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I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

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

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.