Whatever New York loses, if you go to other cities around the world, or around the country, New York still has a kind of energy level you find nowhere else. Paris doesn't have it, London doesn't have it, San Francisco,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
My success was the shock of recognition, probably, rather than the quality of the work. I mean, the quality may have been fine, but there's a lot of fine work out there. It was the fact that I was doing… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to hit what's… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
