I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit.
If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.
