Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

— Michael Leunig

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

— Michael Leunig

There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love…

— Michael Leunig

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting…

— Michael Leunig

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

— Michael Leunig

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but…

— Michael Leunig

God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within…

— Michael Leunig

There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in…

— Michael Leunig

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

— Michael Leunig

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

— Michael Leunig

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy…

— Michael Leunig

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

— Michael Leunig

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy…

— Michael Leunig

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally…

— Michael Leunig

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile…

— Michael Leunig

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and…

— Michael Leunig

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is…

— Michael Leunig

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

— Michael Leunig

Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism.

— Michael Leunig

I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

— Michael Leunig

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

— Michael Leunig

Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what…

— Michael Leunig

Love one another and you will be happy. Its as simple and as difficult as that.

— Michael Leunig

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the…

— Michael Leunig