At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else..

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework..

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate..

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists..

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 anyon….

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

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

I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley S….

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all..

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my a….

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporation….

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel..

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

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witne….

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in r….

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

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 stereotyp….

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.….

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscape….

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work..

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide wher….