Top 95 Vasquez Quotes
#1. Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.
Jodi Picoult
#2. 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
#3. End this pathetic deception! I know you're hiding martians in your head!! Gimme them martians! I am going to put butter on them!! Martians!! Grrr!!
Jhonen Vasquez
#4. The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#7. Well, I just don't want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it's just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.
Jhonen Vasquez
#8. But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
Jhonen Vasquez
#9. Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
Jhonen Vasquez
#11. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#12. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#14. Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.
Jhonen Vasquez
#15. At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
Jhonen Vasquez
#16. In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.
Jhonen Vasquez
#17. Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#19. My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!
Jhonen Vasquez
#20. I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
Jhonen Vasquez
#21. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#23. I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
Jhonen Vasquez
#25. It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
Jhonen Vasquez
#26. The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in ... there is only the beauty of the start!
Jhonen Vasquez
#27. Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
Jhonen Vasquez
#29. He said, "You need not go to a place to talk to God. He is here. Everywhere." He raised his hands up to the sky to emphasize his point. "Yes, you're right," she said,
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#30. I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
Jhonen Vasquez
#31. Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
Jhonen Vasquez
#32. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#33. I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.
Jhonen Vasquez
#34. MISSION ONE ACCOMPLISHED. The next challenge was bringing in online gamers to join him on his crusade. How was he going to convince online gamers to leave the privacy of their virtual world to work with others in the real world?
Harry Doubt
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#35. One day I will rule the world with a goat by my side!
Jhonen Vasquez
#36. Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#37. Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.
Jhonen Vasquez
#38. They talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who you are.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#39. I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.
Jhonen Vasquez
#40. Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.
Jhonen Vasquez
#41. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#42. I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.
Jhonen Vasquez
#43. It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.
Jhonen Vasquez
#46. Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death
Jhonen Vasquez
#47. War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#48. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#49. All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
Jhonen Vasquez
#50. I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
Jhonen Vasquez
#51. In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.
Jhonen Vasquez
#52. I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.
Jhonen Vasquez
#53. And that's when he heard the screaming. Screams came from inside the building. Blood-curdling screams. The kind you don't run to and investigate.
Josh Vasquez
#54. But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
Jhonen Vasquez
#55. You are all zombie thigh-fat people brought into reanimation by some evil force of forceful evil!
Jhonen Vasquez
#56. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#58. After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
Jhonen Vasquez
#59. Creativity and expression of one's art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for. Not everyone is going to like my "art" and I don't really care about that.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#60. I was not designed to fly. I was made to fall from grace.
Lisa Vasquez
#61. Dear Die-ary, I've been to heaven and hell ... and I still don't know if there is a god or a devil. Still ... it's something to write about.
Jhonen Vasquez
#62. Conspiracy!! And now employing juvenile mongoloid demon babies!! My famous chicken recipe will never be yours!! Grr! Woof!
Jhonen Vasquez
#63. I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.
Jhonen Vasquez
#64. How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside!
You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!!
I could just chop your brain out!
It doesn't deserve such a pretty body ...
Jhonen Vasquez
#66. I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
Jhonen Vasquez
#67. I happen to have a certain fondness for existing
soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex ... well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.
Jhonen Vasquez
#68. I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.
Jhonen Vasquez
#69. I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that ... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.
Jhonen Vasquez
#70. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#71. Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!
Jhonen Vasquez
#72. Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#74. Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.
Jhonen Vasquez
#75. Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#76. The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.
Jhonen Vasquez
#77. I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.
Jhonen Vasquez
#78. There are rules to the game but I don't believe that we need to be bound by them. If it feels appropriate to follow the rules, then by all means, follow them. If it feels better to break the rules, be creative and do it.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#79. Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!
Jhonen Vasquez
#80. As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
Jhonen Vasquez
#81. Writing is emotional ... it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#82. When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
Jhonen Vasquez
#83. I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
Jhonen Vasquez
#84. A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
Deanna Vasquez
#85. I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
Jhonen Vasquez
#86. MI FRIEND THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS THE MOST REAL PERSON
Luis Vasquez
#87. I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#88. A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#89. He was tired of associating depression with the myriad of fat girls.
J.A. Vasquez
#90. It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
Jhonen Vasquez
#91. Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that.
Jhonen Vasquez
#92. Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
Jhonen Vasquez
#93. Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.
Jhonen Vasquez
#94. Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
#95. I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.
Jhonen Vasquez
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