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

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.

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

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.

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.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.