53 Quotes by Jules Feiffer

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

design is so important because chaos is so hard

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father

I've backed off cliffs all of my career. The best things I've done I've backed into. I never understood what I was getting into, I never started out to be a political cartoonist. There wasn't this kind of cartoonist when I started. I wanted to do traditional strips in the newspapers and backed into what I did then and backed into writing plays and backed into children's books. And what I'll back into next, I don't know, but I'll be looking forward to going backward.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.

I love doing it and until I stop loving it, this is what I do. I loved writing for the theater for 20 years, and then I stopped. And this is what replaced it. I always need something to be passionate about.

There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.