{"quotes":[{"text":"Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.","author":"Danyl McLauchlan","tags":["comic","noir","satire"],"id":22351,"author_id":"Danyl+McLauchlan"},{"text":"My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.","author":"Maria Semple","tags":["comic","fiction","funny","humor"],"id":22890,"author_id":"Maria+Semple"},{"text":"They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. Bus monsters are people too.","author":"Kippa","tags":["artdeco","comic","fantasy","horror","magic"],"id":32381,"author_id":"Kippa"},{"text":"You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.","author":"Stephan Pastis","tags":["you","comic","little "],"id":76387,"author_id":"Stephan+Pastis"},{"text":"There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.","author":"Bill Watterson","tags":["comfort","comic","humor"],"id":77616,"author_id":"Bill+Watterson"},{"text":"If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["antics","clown","comic","funny","gag","heaven","humour","jester","michael-bassey-johnson","mr-bean","whiteman"],"id":92047,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["atom","beauty","beings","breathtaking","comic","cosmic","create","ease","game","graceful","laugh","learned","self","seriousness"],"id":108746,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language.","author":"Manu Joseph","tags":["comic","happiness","humanity-and-society","language","religion","unfortunate"],"id":112381,"author_id":"Manu+Joseph"},{"text":"But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? Pg 264.","author":"Danyl McLauchlan","tags":["comic","noir","satire"],"id":117262,"author_id":"Danyl+McLauchlan"},{"text":"I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.","author":"Rita Mae Brown","tags":["comedy","comedy-humor","comic","comic-books","comics","humor-inspirational","jared-wheat","opportunities","opportunity","opportunity-temptation","reason","reasons","sense-of-humor","show-off","show-offs","showing-off"],"id":124522,"author_id":"Rita+Mae+Brown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}