“He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits:This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid.Till in the end he could not change the tragic habitsThis formula for drawing comic rabbits made.”

“Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.”

“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.”

“Cuinchy bred rats. They came up from the canal, fed on the plentiful corpses, and multiplied exceedingly. While I stayed here with the Welsh, a new officer joined the company... When he turned in that night, he heard a scuffling, shone his torch on the bed, and found two rats on his blanket tussling for the possession of a severed hand.”

“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

“Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses’ Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.”

“I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate”