Berkeley Breathed Quotes

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

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

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

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

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

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

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

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

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

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

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

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

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

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, which has saved me many legal fees.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.