I think humor and terror are very closely related.

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with…

— Gail Simone

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

— Rajpal Yadav

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

— Kristin Hunter

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same…

— Elif Batuman

I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.

— Camille Henrot

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's…

— Colman Domingo

I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years…

— John Lurie

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…

— William Collins

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them,…

— John Grant

I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it…

— Sloane Crosley

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

— Jim Butcher

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

— Dave Barry

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

— John Perry Barlow