72 Quotes by Chester Brown

That’s the thing. in medicine, you’re used to saying there’s a problem within the person, and saying there’s a problem within the culture, that’s not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there’s only one type of answer that they can find.

I don’t worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it’s almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s being abused by the guy. You can’t know for sure.

I think politics is important. It’s how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don’t understand why some people don’t.

With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on – it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they’re going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

When I was a teenager, ‘Playboy’ was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn’t interest me.

I Never Liked You. I think that’s my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also because it’s just annoying having to deal with art editors, and having to read people’s articles or books or whatever.