There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Cullen Hightower
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris
Great humorists are great insulters.
Dick Cavett
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
James Gleick
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
John Scalzi
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
Peter Sellers
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.
Robert Mankoff
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.
Roseanne Barr
