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“I've always drawn cartoons, that's all I can do. If I didn't draw, I would probably be in a mental hospital.”
― R. Crumb, R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb

“I don't think that America really respects people who devote themselves to something like sitting alone doing artwork rather than being out there hustling.”
― R. Crumb

“People who want to be famous don't know what they're getting into. Once I got famous I saw a side of humanity I'd never seen before. People who don't even know your work want to glom onto you just because you are famous. It's a nauseating aspect of human nature that people worship power -- that's one of the things about mankind that I find truly reprehensible.”
― R. Crumb, R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb

“I had such a heavy Catholic brainwashing when I was a kid and I've been dealing with it ever since. It doesn't ever completely go away, no matter how intellectual you become later. The thing happened to you so young and formed your view of the universe at such an early age, or has at least a big influence on your view of the universe, you never completely get past it.”
― R. Crumb, R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb

“I learned about dogma from experts. I started Catholic school in the first grade and got a heavy dose of it. In fourth grade the nuns used to tell us, 'Some of you will abandon the Church.' I always said, 'No, I never will, not me.' I was fanatically Catholic, praying all the time. My brother was even more fanatical; he used to walk around with pebbles in his shoes.”
― R. Crumb, R. Crumb: Conversations by R. Crumb