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

I use photos a lot for drawing people and personalities, but they're almost never photos that I've taken.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.

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

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

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.