"Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy..."

“Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion.”

“n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”

“Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you.”

“Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.”

“I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.”

“In any creative field--any creative field--you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that--potential--and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others.”