Dave Sim Quotes

What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong.

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own. (#2, p. 9)

[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)

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. (p. 21)

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. (p. 41)

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. (p. 27)

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.

If you really want to do it nothing and no one is going to stop you, if you don't really want to do it, nothing and no one is going to help you.

Get out of your own way. (p.28)

If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination.

The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)

...there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned. (p. 21)

Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)

No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)