Max Cannon

“I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.”

“I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.”

“I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.”

“We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.”

“I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.”

“I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.”

“I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.”

“Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.”

“People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.”

“You ever try to go a day without judgment?”

“Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.”

“It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.”

“Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.”

“People get really caught up in their own trips.”

“As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.”

“The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.”

“We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.”

“But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.”

“I wanted to be a painter.”

“We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.”