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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."

"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."

"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."

"The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet."

"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."

"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."

"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them."

"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."
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