BIL KEANE QUOTES

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'supposed to be a happy time'.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I don't just try to be funny.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme