All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
