The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
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 BarryThe only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.
Lynda BarrySometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
Lynda Barry