"I've always drawn cartoons, that's all I can do. If I didn't draw, I'd probably be in a mental hospital. "

"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 anyone standing over us."

"In my own spaced-out, inarticulate way, I tried to draw the images I saw in my mind when I heard modern pop music on LSD ... clownish fools boppin' and jivin' in the garbage heap they were making out of the Earth. ... I was fooled by my own drawings. Other people thought they were happy images of relaxed cartoon characters just havin' a good ol' time ... so I did too! I forgot what they really were. Photographs of the dance of death!"

"I decided to be more brave about what was coming out. I used to draw stuff in secret and throw it away. Flush it down the toilet. I wanted to see what the readership could take. Over about a period of a year I got more strange and crazier and finally I came out with this totally weird sex fantasy comic: Big Ass comics."

"I never liked to read war comics, super hero, crime, science fiction, horror or western-type comics when I was a kid. There was too much writing. It was too much work to read them. Besides, I was a sissy, a mama’s boy. I liked cute characters. Those comics seemed sinful and evil!"

"It still amazes me at how enthusiastically the editors of underground papers responded to my stuff: 'Oh yeah! This is great! Give us more!.. I could hand in a page like 'Phonus Balonus' or 'All Asshole Comics'and nobody would blink!"

"To be a sincere, serious artist in America is to be a loser."

"There's a lot of weird shit in everybody's head. Anybody can be a cartoonist if they could draw. The whole value of a cartoonist is to be able to bring it all out in the open. It takes courage to let it all out. And it's necessary so that we all can laugh at it."

"My earliest memory of comic books is the way they smelled!"

"My High School art teacher didn't like me. He said 'If you keep doing those cartoons, you'll wind up selling pencils on the street!"