Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

If everything was good, maybe I wouldn't have a career. I wouldn't have anything to make fun of.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.