Quotes from Ted Rall

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be.