Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed...Healthy emotions tell every independent young man and every honorable youth that the dirty and filth-covered vermin, the greatest bacteria carrier in the animal kingdom, cannot be the ideal type of animal...Away with Jewish brutalization of the people! Down with Mickey Mouse! Wear the Swastika Cross!Art Spiegelman
No, darling! To die it's easy...But you have to struggle for life!Vladek Spiegelman
How am I supposed to make any sense out of Auschwitz?...How the hell can I begin to CONVEY this...Art Spiegelman
I still want to know what you went through...I want to understand...I want to make what happened real...Art Spiegelman
Life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!Art Spiegelman
Suicide seemed like an easy solution. If only I’d had the courage, I’d have done it long ago.Vladek Spiegelman
I'm not a religious man. I learned German and Polish, and learned to pray only from fear. I would pray to God to help me, that my wife not be taken, that I not be found.Vladek Spiegelman
I can’t even make any sense out of my relationship with my father...How am I supposed to make any sense out of Auschwitz?...of the Holocaust?Art Spiegelman
You have to struggle for life because only if you are alive, things could get better.Vladek Spiegelman
We didn’t experience the war. We lived with its aftereffects.Art Spiegelman