Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

- Jules Feiffer

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

- Jules Feiffer

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might t…

- Jules Feiffer

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will…

- Jules Feiffer

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

- Jules Feiffer

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was depr…

- Jules Feiffer

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

- Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

- Jules Feiffer

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

- Jules Feiffer