Any good comedy has its basis in tragedy. It’s a hair’s breadth removed — not the tragedy of death, but the abiding one of life.
“If you read any of my stories or novels, the drama is the same: some fucked up, damaged, terrifying situation and this nearly hysterical determination to spin away from the meat grinder through language, through comedy, through metaphor, through a sort of manic refusal to give in.”
Curtis White