Gary Larson

Cartoonist

1950-08-14

Quotes by Gary Larson

• 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.

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• Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

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• Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.

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• 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.

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• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

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• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

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• I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

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• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

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• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

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• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

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• The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

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