Quotes by Harvey Pekar

“Dont call me a curmudgeon. Everyone who writes about me calls me a curmudgeon. I dont know why.”

“I guess theres an element of self-loathing there,”

“I still feel kind of beleaguered.”

“Were as interesting and funny as anyone else.”

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

My parents work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldnt agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldnt have so many wars.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because theyve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything youll ever see on TV.

Israels creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

When I was a kid, back in the 40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like All-American Comics or Star-Spangled Comics or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with American as the first word.