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Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else. — Harvey Pekar

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. — Harvey Pekar

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day ... — Harvey Pekar

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers. — Harvey Pekar

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. — Harvey Pekar

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. — Harvey Pekar

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. — Harvey Pekar

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. — Harvey Pekar

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. — Harvey Pekar

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. — Harvey Pekar

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. — Harvey Pekar

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet. — Harvey Pekar

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. — Harvey Pekar

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz's unsung heroes — Harvey Pekar

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. — Harvey Pekar

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. — Harvey Pekar

Letterman ... he got his problems. We don't get along too well. — Harvey Pekar

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures — Harvey Pekar

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. — Harvey Pekar

It's my perspective: gloom and doom. — Harvey Pekar

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. — Harvey Pekar

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. — Harvey Pekar

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures. — Harvey Pekar

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there. — Harvey Pekar

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. — Harvey Pekar

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. — Harvey Pekar

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe. — Harvey Pekar

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that. — Harvey Pekar

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about. — Harvey Pekar

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet. — Harvey Pekar

Plays have been made of my comics. — Harvey Pekar

I'm a guy that likes to sit in one place. — Harvey Pekar

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar

I want to keep doing as much work as I can, and I want to keep the level high. I'm wondering if something is going to happen to me to screw it up. — Harvey Pekar

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick. — Harvey Pekar

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes. — Harvey Pekar

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. — Harvey Pekar

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. — Harvey Pekar

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. — Harvey Pekar

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative. — Harvey Pekar

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. — Harvey Pekar

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize. — Harvey Pekar

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. — Harvey Pekar

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. — Harvey Pekar

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics. — Harvey Pekar

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar

I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work. — Harvey Pekar

Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. ... — Harvey Pekar

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. — Harvey Pekar

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly. — Harvey Pekar