Art Spiegelman

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult.

Disaster is my muse.

I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn’t the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.