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1 " Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion. "
― Gary Larson , The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
2 " I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen. "
― Gary Larson
3 " I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. "
4 " If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job. "
― Gary Larson , The Far Side
5 " You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'. "
6 " If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care? "
7 " It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies. "
8 " Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass! "
9 " My drafting table, where I drew The Far Side for most of my career, faced a window that overlooked a beautiful garden; beyond the garden was a lake, and beyond the lake Mount Rainier rose majestically into the Washington sky.I worked at night. "
10 " Look out, everyone! ... We're being attacked by a giant sq ... well, no ... I'd say medium squid! "
11 " Now this end is called the Thogomizer... after the late Thog Simmons. "
12 " I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning. "
13 " Simultaneously all three went for the ball, and the coconut-like sound of their heads colliding secretly delighted the bird. "
14 " Every one of these cartoons is just something that drifted into my head when I was alone with my thoughts. And, for better or worse, I 'jotted' them down. It was only later, when perhaps I received an angry letter from someone, that it struck me: Hey! Someone's been reading my diary! "