Fantagraphics Books Quotes

#1. I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

Henry Rollins

#2. So what are people actually referring to when they talk about "deregulation"? In ordinary usage, the word seems to mean "changing the regulatory structure in a way that I like.

David Graeber

#3. You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

John Travolta

#4. Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.

James C. Collins

#5. For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

Ihara Saikaku

#6. Let us comfort ourselves in the thought of the Father and the Son. So long as there dwells harmony, so long as the Son loves the Father with all the love the Father can welcome, all is well with the little ones.

George MacDonald

#7. Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Hugh Leonard

#8. I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

Ruby Elliot