A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation.

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

I'm getting grumpier all the time.

Some women drop off the face of the earth when they get involved with a man. And that's what it's been like with me.