143 Quotes by Lynda Barry

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.