Quotes by Mort Walker

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.”

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”

“My wife would sometimes say, Why dont you give up, ... But Im not a giving-up kind of person. Once you start something like this, you cant just walk away.”

“You think back through history, and 40 was an old age at one time. You didnt live past 40. Sixty — forget it. Here I am at 80, and I feel alert and energetic. Why would I retire?”

“a wonderful way of studying history.”

“I was banned from Stars and Stripes because I was detrimental to discipline. That got me news stories and got me published all over the world and boosted my circulation like nothing (else).”

“He brought a whole new attitude toward the comics, ... He brought pathos and the attitudes you know that all real children have of rejection and failure ... and he somehow made them funny.”

“He was Charlie Brown,”

“He did something entirely different from what all the rest of us did. I write and draw funny pictures and slapstick; its a joke a day. He delved into the psyche of children and the fears and the rejections that we all felt as children.”

“Cartoonists gave away their work, and syndicates and newspapers with archives didnt know what to do with them, so they just backed up their trucks and gave us 10,000 at a time.”

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.