Quotes by Lynda Barry

“You may be a lady but you are still the man!”

“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut...”

“Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.”

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

“It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me”

“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and ma...”

“What year is it in your imagination?”

“What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.”

“The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both st...”

“Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.”

“Ask a burning question, get a burning answer”

“I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.”

“Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there'...”

“A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.”

“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”

“Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of...”

“Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playin...”

“The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.”

“My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.”

“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”