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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

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

Thought

Cartoons

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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'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?

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

Humor

Time

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love

Love will make a way out of no way.

Lynda Barry

Love

Will

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Lynda Barry

Life

People

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

Lynda Barry

Class

Race

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Lynda Barry

Bed

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.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Lynda Barry

Class