I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

The pursuit of dreams is supernatural endeavours.

Aren't you something, " Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person, " Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.