Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. – Lynda Barry
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. – Lynda Barry
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. – Lynda Barry
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon