Quotes About Author

Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.

I've had tragedy in my life, but I think that gives me a depth that I can bring to my work. I'd like to see more older women on TV because they can bring that life experience and emotion to a performance.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

I really am not affected by the tragic aspects of my books.