The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.