143 Quotes by Lynda Barry

Some lights shine without any flashing. Others flash on and off.

In health we’re doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It’s very stupid.

At the center of everything we call ‘the arts,’ and children call ‘play,’ is something which seems somehow alive.

The minute you understand racism, you’re responsible for being racist. It’s like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson.

Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chintziest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time.

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you’re not. That’d be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the ‘hello’ is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me.