“I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.”

“When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.”

“He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.”

“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”

“I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.”

“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”

“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”

“Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.”

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”