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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"She was a genius, my mother."
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"I always thought of Levittown as a joke."
Thought
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
Community
"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
Art
"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
Drugs
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
Chaos
"My first character was Mr. Toad."
Character
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
Being
"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
Art
"Are we having fun yet?"
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"Zippy is living in the moment."
Living
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