WE THINK TOO MUCH AND FEEL TOO LITTLE. CHARLE CHAPLIN
WHEN I MANAGE TO WRITE WELL, there is a second, silent language. this silent language says what it is all about. It’s not the story, but you can hear something behind it — a silent voice speaking.
JON FOSSE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
“FOR HIS INNOVATIVE PLAYS AND PROSE WHICH GIVE VOICE TO THE UNSAYABLE”
“You don’t read my books for the plots. but it’s not because I want to be a difficult writer. I’ve never tried to write in a complicated way. I always try to write as simply and, I hope, as deeply as I possibly can.”
“I try to write about the mystery of life. I’m not looking for answers in a simple way; I want to celebrate the enigma.”
BIL KEANE 1922-2011 Cartoonist “The Family Circus”.
“We are in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”
“Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me. That’s why I have all this white hair.”
YESTERDAY’S the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. that’s why it’s called present.
I NEVER STUDIED ART, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of the day.
A HUG IS LIKE A BOOMERANG — YOU GET IT BACK RIGHT AWAY.
THEY INVENTED HUGS to let people know you love them without saying anything.
GOAL BEGINS WITH “GO.”
A PEACEFUL HOME IS AS SACRED A PLACE AS ANY CHAPEL OR CATHEDRAL.
SOMETIMES I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme.
MANY OF MY CARTOONS are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
GOD PUT SANTA CLAUS on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘supposed to be happy time.
I LIKE TO FEEL that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
TIME GOES BY AT SUCH A PACE, IT’S FUNNY HOW IT’S EASY TO FORGET HER FACE.