Max Cannon Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

People get really caught up in their own trips.

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

People are essentially red meat. They are.

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be a painter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

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