139 Quotes by Harvey Pekar

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

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

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

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

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

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

I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

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.