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"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"

"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."

"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."

"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."
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"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!"

"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."

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

"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances."
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