Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

Things I say are sometimes silly.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

I don't take myself seriously, because I'm obviously ludicrous.

They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.