Victor Baumer

“If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.”
― Maurice Sendak

“You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.”
― Karl Marx

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno