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1 " I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. "
― Berkeley Breathed
2 " Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and joy and surprise that could no more be reversed than one's first taste of chocolate.A dog kiss. "
― Berkeley Breathed , Flawed Dogs: The Shocking Raid on Westminster
3 " Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. "
4 " Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. "
5 " And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies. "
― Berkeley Breathed , Goodnight Opus
6 " Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. "
7 " Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story...but departed the text. "
8 " Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel. "
― Berkeley Breathed , Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
9 " Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game. "
― Berkeley Breathed , The Bloom County Library, Vol. 3: 1984-1986
10 " A very, terribly long time ago, before such things as televisionand good table manners or evenchildren, ferocious monstersroamed a younger, angrier world. "
― Berkeley Breathed , The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story
