Charles M. Schulz Quotes

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born.

I'm also not sure that I look up to others as knowing what the hell is going on, except maybe Andre Agassi, who, when I interviewed him, while covering the U.S. Open, seemed to know what was going on. My basic assumption is that we're all confused all the time. Some people do act more confident, though. Maybe they aren't confused. I am. I'm confused.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.

It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about. If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!

Am I lost or just less found?

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.