pen quotes

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.