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. Bil Keane Read Quote
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. Bil Keane Read Quote
Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education – for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline. Bil Keane Read Quote
Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single-parent family and mixed family units. Bil Keane Read Quote
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. Bil Keane Read Quote
Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another. Bil Keane Read Quote
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board. Bil Keane Read Quote
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. Bil Keane Read Quote
I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date. Bil Keane Read Quote
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. Bil Keane Read Quote
