53 Quotes by Jules Feiffer

Satire doesn’t stand a chance against reality anymore.

I’m well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one’s past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you’re controlling the work, it’s not going to be very good, or it won’t be as good as it should be.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what’s going on.

I think we overrate experience and what we’ve been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.

I’ve never met a cartoonist who isn’t quirky or weird in some ways.

Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren’t legitimate – a grownup’s version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you’re thinking.