Jim Davis

“I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.”

“My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.”

“Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.”

“When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.”

“I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.”

“The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.”

“I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.”

“An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.”