At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? — 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 behind me than not, because I have no vision for it. I've never been able to play games or play cards because I can't in my head get the next move. I've never been able to… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share
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 acceptable balance what people would talk about in public. And I wanted to stretch those and move further out. And as the civil rights movement began, I started doing cartoons on that and on sit-ins and… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share
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, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share
