This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
Lynda BarryI started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
Lynda BarryI need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.
Lynda BarryThe point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, itโs an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didnโt notice you noticed at all.
Lynda Barrysomething can only become an illusion after disillusionment. before that, it is something real. what caused the disillusionment? no one told me the print on the wall was just ink and paper and had no life of its own. at some point the cat stopped blinking, and i stopped thinking it could.
Lynda Barry