People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good.

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

There is a Power in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it.

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.