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"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."
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."

"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."

"I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on."

"In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use."

"I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band."
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"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."

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"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."
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