Your Vigor For Life Appalls Me.

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.

The French Hold Onto Their Traditions. I Was Always So Alienated In America. My Work Was This Constant Reaction To That.

Some Things I Won't Do For Any Amount Of Money. That's So Demoralizing And Goes Against Every Principle That I Hold. It's Like, Okay, Some Rich People Can Buy Me Because I'm A Talented Guy. 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. You Know, Some Of These Wealthy Collectors Have Paid Lots Of Money For Artwork That I Already Did, But I Didn't Do It With The Intention Of Catering To Them.

I Felt So Painfully Isolated That I Vowed I Would Get Revenge On The World By Becoming A Famous Cartoonist.

I Didn't Invent Anything; It's All There In The Culture; It's Not A Big Mystery. I Just Combine My Personal Experience With Classic Cartoon Stereotypes.