Christopher Fry Quotes

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, It certainly tastes like red. Yes, it is red, isn't it? Seems so. She buried her head in her hands. But couldn't it be just a bit more red?

We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

I don't know if we're cutting out, but a friend made a really fascinating suggestion to me; that maybe I could go higher.

It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is exciting. I'm going to go for it now. I really felt it was my time. Then Marc Bolan did it first. That really pissed me off.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.