Ben Katchor
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KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes o... LEV YILMAZ In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the exist... M.I.A. JOHN UPDIKE Playing a villain in a comic show, there's a thin line that you have to be careful not to step o... CASPER CRUMP 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ... FRANK MILLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. PAUL SCOFIELD WILLIAM GADDIS KEN LIU HARUKI MURAKAMI ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN PIERCE BROWN QUINCY JONES C. JOYBELL C. JAMES GUNN DEYTH BANGER STEVE EARLE 'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the bal... MARTIN CHARNIN DANIEL DAY-LEWIS L. RON HUBBARD DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM BARACK OBAMA We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's ... ADAM RAYNER ROBERT PATTINSON GARRY TRUDEAU She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein... FELICITY JONES RON WHITE FRANS DE WAAL Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that th... BERNICE WEISSBOURD PAUL RYAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH MARIA SHARAPOVA MATT GROENING SAMANTHA POWER This instant is the only time there is. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Names sell newspapers, there's no doubt about it. If you know that on a certain day, a certain colum... ANDREW GOWERS The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that Americ... HOWARD STRINGER I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7... 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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comi... 
They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And ... 
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beg... 
We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks i... 
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain A... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that whe... 
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic ... 
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. 
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the cen... 
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... 
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. 
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... 
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... 
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City. 
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and ... 
And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all... 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. 
In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World'... 
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. 
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being tru... 
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas ani... 
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a ... 
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you... 
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. 
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... 
There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... 
Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... 
When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a water... 
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Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag... 
What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no othe... 
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they ... 
He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... 
She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. 
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of li... 
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There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... 
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There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world. 
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa... 
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are... 
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
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Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce... 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. 
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... 
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th... 
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance. 
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut. 