Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.


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I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri...
TERRY GLAVIN
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ...
TERRY BRADSHAW
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
TERRY SOUTHERN
As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I...
TERRY GLAVIN
A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M...
TERRY GLAVIN
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain...
TERRY SOUTHERN
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a...
TERRY WOGAN
Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every...
JOHN TERRY
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS
Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN