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Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

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You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became...

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I...

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

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