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Top 25 Berkeley Breathed Quotes (2025 Update)

Berkeley Breathed Quote: “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”

1. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”

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

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

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

4. “I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”

5. “That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.”

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

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ’ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.”

7. “I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ’ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.”

8. “Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.”

9. “It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “If nothing is serious anymore, then there’s nothing to satirize.”

10. “If nothing is serious anymore, then there’s nothing to satirize.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!”

11. “A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”

12. “I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”

— Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley Breathed Quote: “If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.”

13. “If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.”

14. “The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.”

15. “I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

16. “Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.”

17. “I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.”

18. “The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.”

19. “I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”

20. “I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.”

21. “My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.”

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

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

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.”

23. “He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.”

24. “I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.”

25. “Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.”

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

26. “And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.”

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Berkeley Breathed Quote: “I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.”

27. “I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.”

— Berkeley Breathed

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