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

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.

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.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

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 was a sissy.

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

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

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

If life was a piano light and darkness would be the keys. And shadows would be the melody that creates the harmony.

For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase