Quotes By Garry Trudeau

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.