Walt Kelly Quotes

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

President Kennedy has done some significant things. At the same time I must say that President Kennedy hasn’t not done enough and we must remind him that we elected him.

… disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.

Did Lincoln hate America when he voted against the Mexican War? Did Mark Twain hate America when he made speeches against the Spanish American War? If you love your country you will find ways to speak out …

I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.

Roberto Saviano is the last of my problems.

Dana White hides behind a microphone and behind a TV camera and spouts off and calls people names because he doesn't like their opinion.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

I can't just sit back and write about the club when our democracy is under attack. I have to be a more positive force.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.