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" Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that. "

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" Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. "

" Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it. "

" The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out. "

" In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me. "

" I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy. "

" I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

" When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. "

" If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money. "

" When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate. "

" I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in. "

" I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money. "

" Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work. "

" I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework. "

" I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. "

" You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology. "

" The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first. "

" I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. "

" You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try. "

" People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories. "

" You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust. "

" The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. "

" The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex. "

" When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people. "

" Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. "

" I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface. "

" The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. "

" Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate. "

" I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people. "

" The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. "