Stephan Pastis Quotes

My Wife Staci Made Me Go To A Wedding Last Weekend...if It Weren’t For Her, I’d Be Happy.

If A Restaurant Offers Crayons, I Always Take Them And Color Throughout The Meal. It Beats Talking To The People I Came To Dinner With.

Repeats Are The Absolute Soul-crushing Killers Of The Comics Page.

We Need More Cartoonists To Truly Retire When They Retire, And Not Run Repeats.

You Can Write A Little And Can Draw A Little, But There's Necessarily A Limitation On Both In A Comic Strip, Since It Appears In Such A Tiny Space.

Basically, I Learned To Read By Reading 'peanuts,' Just Wanting To Know What They Were Saying.

I'm Very Harsh On Real Estate Agents. I'm Not Sure Why. Maybe It's Because Of How The Call Every Small House 'charming' And Every Run-down House A 'great Fixer-upper'. Just Once, I'd Like Them To Show Me A House And Declare, 'this One's A Piece Of Crap'.

I Don't Like Drawing Characters Facing Right. If I Tried To Do That At A Book Signing, I'd Have To Pencil It First.

If You're From A Certain Generation, You Basically Learn To Read With 'peanuts.' It's Sort Of The Template For The Modern Strip. Its Influence Ceased To Be Noticed Because It's In Everything.

When I Say 'friends,' I Use That Term Loosely, As I Don't Actually Have Any.

The Phrase 'i Just Turn On My Monkey And It Makes Me Feel Good' Sounds Very Dirty, But I Can't Explain Why. It's Great To Try To Use Expressions Like That On The Comics Page. People Want To Complain But They Can't, Because They Can't Figure Out Quite What They Should Be Complaining About.

A Stand-up Comedian Faces The Audiences And Gets Their Immediate Feedback. I Hide Behind The Comic Strip, And Unless People Write To Me, I Dont Know What They Think.