Jhonen Vasquez

“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

— Jhonen Vasquez

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

— Jhonen Vasquez

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“Dear Die-ary, I've been to heaven and hell...and I still don't know if there is a god or a devil. Still...it's something…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“Tomorrow we settle this like children.”

— Jhonen Vásquez

“I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!

— Jhonen Vasquez

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

— Jhonen Vasquez

“I happen to have a certain fondness for existing--soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.

— Jhonen Vasquez

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

— Jhonen Vasquez

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“Dear Die-ary, I stared, motionless, before the mirror. As always, I stayed until I'm convinced that there is no glass, nothing, separating…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age…

— Jhonen Vasquez

“End this pathetic deception! I know you're hiding martians in your head!! Gimme them martians! I am going to put butter on…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to…

— Jhonen Vasquez