Quotes About Expression

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.

If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

His smile was so wide he'd have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway