Max Cannon Quotations

Have you ever read those reports of the toxic garbage they put in tobacco, because there are no federal regulations that say otherwise?

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

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

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

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

If kids are learning that from somewhere else - like television - you have to ask why they're not learning that from their parents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

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.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

People are essentially red meat. They are.

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

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

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

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

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

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

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

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

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

And I do think a lot of that has to do with achieving inner peace, and seeing the irony of what goes on around you without judgment.