Berkeley Breathed

“Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a…

— Berkeley Breathed

“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

— Berkeley Breathed

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

— Berkeley Breathed

“Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel.”

— Berkeley Breathed

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story…

— Berkeley Breathed

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose…

— Berkeley Breathed

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt…

— Berkeley Breathed

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the…

— Berkeley Breathed

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

— Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

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I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that…

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I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me -…

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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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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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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who…

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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

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“A very, terribly long time ago, before such things as television and good table manners or even children, ferocious monsters roamed a…

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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it…

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Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is…

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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

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I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

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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,…

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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go…

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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

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