They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

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.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder.

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.