Dave Sim quotes

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? (Dave Sim)
In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. View quote
Dave Sim
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness. View quote
Dave Sim
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. View quote
Dave Sim
As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.' View quote
Dave Sim
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own. (#2, p. 9) View quote
Dave Sim
Everyone is normal until you get to know them. View quote
Dave Sim
Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. View quote
Dave Sim
For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber. View quote
Dave Sim
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use. View quote
Dave Sim
The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women. (Dave Sim)
Leftist reactions are always histrionic. View quote
Dave Sim
In any creative field--any creative field--you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that--potential--and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. View quote
Dave Sim
Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head. View quote
Dave Sim
There is nothing wrong withmistakes, but one should always makeones. mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness. View quote
Dave Sim
Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. (Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273) View quote
Dave Sim
Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. View quote
Dave Sim
I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying. View quote
Dave Sim
Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... View quote
Dave Sim
What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong. View quote
Dave Sim
If you really want to do it nothing and no one is going to stop you, if you don't really want to do it, nothing and no one is going to help you. (Dave Sim)
[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. View quote
Dave Sim
Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. View quote
Dave Sim
The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it. View quote
Dave Sim
If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination. View quote
Dave Sim