Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.