Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.
Daniel ClowesYou try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
Daniel ClowesYou need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.
Daniel ClowesI actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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