Ben Katchor Quotes

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

After forty years of selling wholesale industrial deodorizing supplies, one establishment is forced to open its doors to the public.
In the lingo of the trade, a salesman explains why their large institution buyers have gone elsewhere.
Who wants to stand downwind of the League o' Nations every time some freshman with a bladder infection pulls a Nebuchadnezzar?

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.