"I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview."

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Source : "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

Gary Larson

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“I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.”
“My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!”
“I'd like to see feminism really be more loving. Feminists have a lot of righteous anger, and have done a lot to fight for rights. But we need a lot of love and compassion - to embrace people, to educate people. I wasn't a feminist until l I was educated about what it was. I would love to see men attend, and transgender people. Everyone is welcome.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.”
“Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.”
“This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.”
“The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.”

Source : Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

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