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There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

— Art Spiegelman

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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995)

I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.

I didn't make Maus to teach anyone anything. I wasn't making "Auschwitz for Beginners." And I do not want Maus to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Israeli army!

I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.

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Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

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