139 Quotes by Harvey Pekar

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.

We're as interesting and funny as anyone else.

Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.