Bloom County Quotes

#1. Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

E. O. Wilson

#2. Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel.

Berkeley Breathed

#3. The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.

Elizabeth Taylor

#4. Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection,

E.L. Doctorow

#5. To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

#6. Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste, creed, country, religion, race and culture.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Berkeley Breathed

#8. I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Louise Woodward

#9. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

William Hazlitt

#10. Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

Ruadhan J. McElroy

#11. Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Bill Vaughan

#12. Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

Bob Dylan

#13. When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

David Sedaris

#14. I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

Stephan Pastis

#15. The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Amy Bloom

#16. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Berkeley Breathed