When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

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.

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.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

School education will grant you a job. Development in life will grant you wise brain.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

I was rather a fat little boy.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.