Gary Larson
He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."Collection: Lying
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.Collection: Gentleman
I never liked my own species.Collection: Humanity
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.Collection: Teacher
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?Collection: Funny
Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.Collection: Glasses
The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!Collection: World
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.Collection: Ideas
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.Collection: Growing Up
Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.Collection: Perspective
Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.Collection: Said
Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!Collection: Waiting
I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.Collection: Couple
The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.Collection: Mistake
Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!Collection: Oil
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.Collection: Animal
Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.Collection: Mean
I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.Collection: Fall
Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.Collection: Morning
Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.Collection: Men
I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.Collection: Cartoon
I don't read cartoons because I think for the most part the comics don't have an interest for me. There's just nothing there these days that makes me want to go seek them out. I'm not trying to say my work wouldn't have sparked that same reaction from somebody else. There's just nothing there for me personally.Collection: Thinking
Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.Collection: Beautiful