The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
BERKELEY BREATHEDSteve 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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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 digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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.
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If you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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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 all.
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