"The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite."

“Every wall is a door.”

“When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.”

Source : "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

“The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.”

“Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.”

“Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.”

Source : "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

“A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.”

“Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.”

“There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.110, University of Michigan Press