Max Cannon Quotes (32 Quotes)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For example, somebody wrote me a letter suggesting I should be jailed because I was suggesting that grown men go out and kill people.

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.

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.

People are essentially red meat. They are.

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

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

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

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

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

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be a painter.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

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

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

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

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.