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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."

"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"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."

"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 think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."

"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."

"It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing."

"I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in."

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

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