Berkeley Breathed > Quotes

“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”
― Berkeley Breathed

“And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.”
― Berkeley Breathed, Goodnight Opus

“Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. ”
― Berkeley Breathed

“Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”
― Berkeley Breathed

“Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.”
― Berkeley Breathed

“Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story...but departed the text.”
― Berkeley Breathed, Goodnight Opus

“Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and joy and surprise that could no more be reversed than one's first taste of chocolate.

A dog kiss.”
― Berkeley Breathed, Flawed Dogs: The Shocking Raid on Westminster

“Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel.”
― Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness

“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”
― Berkeley Breathed, The Bloom County Library, Vol. 3: 1984-1986

“A very, terribly long time ago,
before such things as television
and good table manners or even
children, ferocious monsters
roamed a younger, angrier world.”
― Berkeley Breathed, The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story

“I am disappointed that you have replaced some good, old-fashioned and humorous cartoons with distasteful ones. For example, "The Far Side" by Gary Larson is not funny, just lacking in good taste. "Calvin and Hobbes" by Watterson could be more acceptable if made less offensive (at times). "Doonesbury" and "Bloom County," I suppose, reflect our times. Far better for our newspaper to be working to change what is so unacceptable to us all in these times. Many other cartoons are funny, likable and reflective of the real and good in our country.
-- Mary Kohler, Yonkers (letter published in the Herald Statesman, Yonkers NY, 11/12/86)
Quoted in /The Bloom County Library/”
― Berkeley Breathed, The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982