Garry Trudeau Quotes

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.