Lynda Barry Quotes
"Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Humor, Time, Fool)
"I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Being, Gay, Man)
"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Dumb, Favorite, Song, Voice)
"I go to work the minute I open my eyes."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Work, Eyes, Open)
"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Funny, Women, People, Conversation, Talking, Trying, Waiting)
"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Thought, Name, Word)
"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Class)
"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Time, Work, Beginning, Consequences)
"The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck."
- Lynda Barry
"Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?"
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Bed)
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Class, Race)
"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Life, People)
"Love will make a way out of no way."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love, Will)
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love)
"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Love, Time, Will)
"If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Humor, Time)
"I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?"
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Work, People, Hate, Letters)
"I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud."
- Lynda Barry
"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Friend, Cartoons, Sleep)
"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Life, Time, Birds, Reading)
"I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Thought, Cartoons)
"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Funny, People)
"In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke."
- Lynda Barry
(Related: Life)