Garry Trudeau famous quotes

03-28-2025

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Graduation #College #World
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Morning #Ideas #Showers
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Trying #Lifestyle #Favourite
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Spring #Divorce #Thinking
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Money #Suffering #Poor
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Political #Dumb #Information
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility
-- Garry Trudeau

#Responsibility #Should
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
-- Garry Trudeau

#College #Order #Drug
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Pain #Frustration #Goal
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Moving #Humor #Responsibility
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
-- Garry Trudeau

#Doctors #Decision #Rooms
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Jesus #Jesus Christ #Christ
Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Mirrors
I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
-- Garry Trudeau

#War #Kids #Thinking
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
-- Garry Trudeau

#People #Trying #Compromise
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Life Is Like #Bathroom #Break
I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Perspective #Pieces #Littles
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Years #Able #Comic
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Parades #Passing #Monitoring
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
-- Garry Trudeau

#Self Esteem #Character #Sides
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Editors #Expectations #Trying
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Country #America #Arrogant
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Moving #Kind #Natural
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Military #Nice #Moving
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Writing #Character #Fiction
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are
-- Garry Trudeau

#War #Views #Secret
There is nothing worse than annotated humour,
-- Garry Trudeau

#Humour
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Exercise #Insecurity #Becoming

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