29 Quotes by William Steig

Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,Pay attention to this witch.A donkey takes you to a knight --Him you conquer in a fight.Then you wed a princess whoIs even uglier than you.Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,The magic words are 'Apple Strudel

His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.

People are no damn good.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

If I'd had it my way, I'd have been a professional athlete, a sailor, a beachcomber, or some other form of hobo, a painter, a gardener, a novelist, a banjo-player, a traveler, anything but a rich man.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works