Dave Sim

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

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

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

"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)"

"Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... (p. 296)"

"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."

"It seems to me a core element of belief in God that a choice is a choice and it eliminates all other choices."

"Id rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality."

"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."

"Id rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying."

"The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isnt a joke). Five years. Think about it. (p. 20)"

"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)"