Berkeley Breathed

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#happy #happy childhood #late #never #never too late

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#before #comes #even #find #lives

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#backwards #beat #books #built #emotionally

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#cartooning #deconstruction #down #gotta #joke

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#despite #moral #simply #tell #world

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#attention #cartoonist #college #course #did

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#experience #first #harry #harry potter #plot

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#comes #greeting #guy #hallmark #holidays

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bloom #county #environment #harper #kill