“Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most in...” — Elizabeth McCracken Quote

“Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.”

“An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.”

“I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.”

“There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.”

“It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.”

“I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.”

“When you see me on the pitch, I will always be smiling, always laughing, always playing jokes. I grew up as somebody who was always laughing. In England, people will tell me that I should not laugh, but you cannot stop me from laughing. It's impossible.”

“I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.”

“All the traveling means I'm constantly writing and testing new jokes.”

“I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.”

“My jokes have definitely changed. 'SNL' has helped with that, because when you're on 'SNL,' you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.”

“I could never sit down and write jokes.”