Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
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I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
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Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.