Berke Breathed Quotes


"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."
- Berke Breathed
(Related: Humor, Negative, Books, Children)

"I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards."
- Berke Breathed
(Related: Cards, Holidays)

"I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste."
- Berke Breathed
(Related: Nature, Lady, Waste, Years)

"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."
- Berke Breathed
(Related: Dying, Want)