Bil Keane

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

— Bil Keane

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the…

— Bil Keane

I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to…

— Bil Keane

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

— Bil Keane

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

— Bil Keane

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

— Bil Keane

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids.…

— Bil Keane

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

— Bil Keane

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing…

— Bil Keane

Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian…

— Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic…

— Bil Keane

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

— Bil Keane

I don't just try to be funny.

— Bil Keane

Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education…

— Bil Keane

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my…

— Bil Keane

Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen…

— Bil Keane

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

— Bil Keane

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they…

— Bil Keane

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my…

— Bil Keane

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that…

— Bil Keane

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the…

— Bil Keane

Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are…

— Bil Keane

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

— Bil Keane

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

— Bil Keane

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

— Bil Keane