"If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also because it's just annoying having to deal with art editors, and having to read people's articles or books or whatever."

-- Chester Brown

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“I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.”
“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.”

Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?”
“Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.”
“In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.”
“Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency”
“The public school has become the established church of secular society.”

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