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Quotes by Cartoonist
"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
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"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
8
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
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"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
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"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny."
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"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
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"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
7
"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
7
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
7
"Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?"
7
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
7
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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"Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too."
7
"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
7
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
7
"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
7
"Immortality - a fate worse than death."
7
"I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."
7
"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
Life,
7
"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
7
"Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material."
7
"The most profound statements are often said in silence."
7
"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
6
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
6
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
6
"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
6
"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
6
"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
6
"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could."
6
"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
6
"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
6
"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby."
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
6
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
6
"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
6
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
6
"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper."
6
"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
6
"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
6
"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
6
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
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