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Quotes by Cartoonist
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."
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"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
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"PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
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"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
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"Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."
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"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."
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"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
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"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."
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"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."
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"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."
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"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
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"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."
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"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
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"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
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"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."
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"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
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"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
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"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories."
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"Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title."
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"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."
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"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another."
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"If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life."
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"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
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"Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels."
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"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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"I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar."
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"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."
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"I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."
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"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
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"Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?"
Bed,
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
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"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."
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"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."
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"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."
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"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."
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"If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct."
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"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."
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"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
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"Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time."
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"I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level."
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