Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long..… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. — Michael Leunig Copy Share
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
