Quotes

[Maus] The einsatzgruppen would knock a prisoner's cap off so that when he ran to fetch it they could shoot him.

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! (February 2025)

Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood.

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.

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

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

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.

Comics are for whoever can understand them.