"In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings."

“I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.”

Source : Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.”

“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.”

“Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.”

“It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.”

“When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (1969). “Christian Science Sentinel”

“one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.”

“Creativity means not copying.”