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.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

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

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

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

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

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.