Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford Copy Share Image
“Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.” — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.” — Jacques Vache Copy Share Image
“The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.” — William Clayton Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“I always thought there were like seven continents.” Crazzee was kind of an expert in geography. One of her ex-boyfriends had a… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“He quite liked dentists’ waiting rooms. Waiting for dentists was good. Waiting for them was so much better than having them stick… — Jackson Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand. — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“A gurgling chuckle came from behind him; Jonas had heard it often enough to know that it signified something as close to… — Kaine Andrews Copy Share Image
You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?" " Motive - Don't know. " "What… — Pamela Branch Copy Share Image
“Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India,… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“She was knitting a sweater and enjoying the calm atmosphere of her living room when her chubby, beer-drinking, sports-watching husband woke from… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
“Those screams had been growing steadily louder, as the torture masters of Eld worked their way down the line of new prisoners.… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid it's not nonsense," Genghis said, shaking his turbaned head and continuing his story. "As I was saying before the little… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call… — Chloe Caldwell Copy Share Image
“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller?… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“He thought he vomited out his soul. If ghosts were made of ectoplasm and ghosts were basically souls without bodies, then it… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
“C’mon, sweetness. You don’t have to run. I won’t hurt you.” A pause, as though he was contemplating. “Much.” he amended, punctuating… — Kaine Andrews Copy Share Image
The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
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