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

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

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.

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

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

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.

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