Stephan Pastis Quotes

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• When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
• Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food…
• I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down…
• When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in…
• I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I…
• My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren’t for her, I’d be happy.
• If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.
• Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
• We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.
• You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in…
• Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.
• Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
• I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
• If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased…
• Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)
• The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to…
• When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.
• If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.
• I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of…
• It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.

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