78 Quotes by Garry Trudeau

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.

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

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

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

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

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

That's for the readers to adjudge, but I will say that in general public commentators have nowhere near the clout that we enjoyed 35 years ago, the age of four TV channels and no Internet, ... As far as I'm concerned, it's all good. You can't have too many voices in a democracy. Talented people will find their audiences.

It was at a time when U.S. troops were taking heavy casualties, and I wanted the strip to reflect the sacrifices that our countrymen were making.

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