A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.

Social media has become a dark place, and the sites need to clean up their act if they want people to keep using them.

— Susanna Reid

“Don’t be afraid of your dark places,” Mom told her. “If you can shine a light on them, you’ll find treasure there.”

— Jeannette Walls

All comedy comes from a dark place.

— Katt Williams

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there…

— Philip Caputo

'This will pass and it always does.' I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to…

— Majora Carter

When you're writing in first person, like I do, you can't give a fluffy version of someone's thoughts because even the most prudish woman…

— Dawn O'Porter

“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.”

— Jasper Fforde

“If you're going into a dark place... you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see,…

— Stephen King

I could be joking and smiling [with infidels] and then cutting their throats in the next second.

— Tarik Shah

I'm joking, I'm joking. Best decision I ever made.

— Joe Biden

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

— John Oliver

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock…

— Carrie Brownstein

“I was joking about my clones to my family when my uncle Herman said, “Don’t do that. Don’t make fun of yourself and others…

— Jarod Kintz

“The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish…

— Marcel Proust

Joking about violence is not funny.

— Perez Hilton