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The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.
There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.
The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.
I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.
I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.
You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.
It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me
Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.
Dear Santa Claus, just a last note before you take off. I hope you have a nice trip. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt.
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.