Foglio Quotes

#1. People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

Jonathan Haidt

#2. Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

Siddharth Katragadda

#3. One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

Marina Abramovic

#5. Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat.

Phil Foglio

#6. No, Klaus, it isn't a game. I am determined to change. I do love him. It should be enough. Besides, they always win. There must be something to their philosophy. --Lucrezia Mongfish:

Phil Foglio

#7. What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Ava Gardner

#8. Generally speaking, by the way, that is the moral of the opponents of violence in politics: they renounce violence when it comes to introducing changes in what already exists, but in defense of the existing order they will not stop at the most ruthless acts.

Leon Trotsky

#9. One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

Phil Foglio

#10. We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.

Phil Foglio

#11. Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.

Phil Foglio

#12. Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.

Phil Foglio

#13. As Master Payne escorted her to the waiting coach, a small frown crossed her face. "People keep giving me rings," she confided to him, "But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

Phil Foglio

#14. If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

Phil Foglio

#15. As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Phil Foglio

#17. She's a smart girl, so she doesn't trust you, but she obviously likes you.

Phil Foglio

#18. My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

Phil Foglio

#19. Agatha Clay: "I've never had coffee. Lilith said a young lady shouldn't drink stimulants."
Zeetha: "Drink your coffee like a warrior."
Agatha Clay: "...Yes, Zeetha.

Phil Foglio

#20. If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

Samuel Fuller

#21. Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Phil Foglio

#22. I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

Phil Foglio

#23. He must be a vampire.

Alexandre Dumas

#24. Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her
and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

Phil Foglio

#25. Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#26. Xav!
Got you. Not letting you go.
I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space; he had always been there and could pilot me home.

Joss Stirling

#27. Tarvek: "You call that 'throwing?'"
Gilgamesh: "Hey, at least I got his hat!

Phil Foglio

#28. I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

Phil Foglio

#29. When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

J.G. Ballard

#30. You know, there's more to being an evil despot then getting cake whenever you want it."
"If that's what you think, then you're DOING IT WRONG!

Phil Foglio

#31. All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

P.D. James