Garry Trudeau Quotes
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
