Daniel Clowes > Quotes

“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.”
― Daniel Clowes, Caricature

“I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire. ”
― Daniel Clowes

“The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“So what have you guys been up to?”
“Nothing, worshipping Satan.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?”
― Daniel Clowes, The Death-Ray

“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!”
― Daniel Clowes, Ice Haven

“Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood... I just stood there and watched her disappear like the pathetic, 'romantic' coward I was (and still am, I guess)... In a way, it was a perfect moment -- everything I had been waiting for... People like me probably don't want anything to actually happen to them anyway...”
― Daniel Clowes, Caricature

“Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Pussey, you're worse than a hundred girls!”
― Daniel Clowes, Pussey!

“Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship... I thought about my friends and about how I didn't have any...”
― Daniel Clowes, Caricature

“- ...before I was going to college, my secret plan was to one day not tell anybody and just get on some bus to some random city and just move there and become this totally different person.
- Then what?
- ...and not come back until I had totally become this person... I used to think about it all the time...
- I don't get it...
- That's because you don't uterlly loathe yourself”
― Daniel Clowes

“You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“Bring me your Nortons, your Kramdens, your housewives, and sewermen.
Weight my limbs with the nests of your flotsam, that we may chirp in chorus this melancholy anthem.
Mourn with your busdriver piety this sapless husk;
dull with your tender hymn the string of the lumberman's axe.”
― Daniel Clowes

“For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.”
― Daniel Clowes, David Boring

“But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!”
― Daniel Clowes, Caricature

“When I was, like thirteen I thought it would be really cool to be a prostitute... I Thought It was like handsome guys would take you out on these romantic dates and you´d fuck them and then they´d pay you...”
― Daniel Clowes

“C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.”
― Daniel Clowes, David Boring

“I'd gladly read something that is exceptionally stupid or bad as long as it was done by someone with some sort of personal vision, even if that person was a complete moron.”
― Daniel Clowes, Daniel Clowes: Conversations