23 Quotes by Lynda Barry

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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.
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.
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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.
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.
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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.
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
Love will make a way out of no way.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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.
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
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.
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.
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
Embrace the chaos within you, for out of darkness blooms the most vibrant colors.
People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full are missing the point. The glass can always be refilled.
Success is like a dial tone; you have to keep repicking the line until you get through.

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