L.B. Scott Quotes

We like something because someone else liked it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

New York exists for me. Not me for it.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

I don't think anybody does anything anymore without commenting on why they're doing it or making fun of it as they're doing it.

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

Everybody is so sure about everything these days. Just look at your horrible Facebook feed on the most recent tragedy that people are commenting on.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies.

I think all good art is outsider art.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

I have had a career in public service.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

My first influences were superhero artists.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.