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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was. "

" In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual. "

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

" I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly. "

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

" I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music. "

" I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that! "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us. "

" I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. "

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

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

" Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "