Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usable. Boil a gag down to its simplest form, and it is readily discernible to anybody who sees it.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.More Carl Barks quotes [10/11/2011 09:10:08]

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.More Carl Barks quotes [10/11/2011 09:10:19]

The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my readers that the bad guys have a little of good in them, and the good guys have a lot of bad in them, and that you can't depend on anything much; nothing is always going to turn out roses.More Carl Barks quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]