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.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.