Jules Feiffer

“At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.”

“Most of us are not what we seem. We are what we hide.”

“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”

“Cartoons are pictures with ideas.”

“We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they don't know, which has a great deal of bearing on their lives.”

“Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.”

“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”

“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”

“The story of my life is the story of the walls that I have run into, and the story of how I have been able to get through them.”

“I don't write for children. I write. And somebody says, 'That's for children!'”

“What I did was I completed the book in my head and I just wrote it down.”

“I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.”