The only burning passion I'm sure I have is the passion for sex.

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

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

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.

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

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