Top 40 Jhonen Vasquez Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “One day I will rule the world with a goat by my side!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

2. “There’s nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their “discomfort” like a favorite shirt.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

3. “Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

4. “Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I’m wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

5. “This is heaven. You can stop praying now.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

6. “Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

7. “Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

8. “It’s a frightening world to be alone in.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

9. “End this pathetic deception! I know you’re hiding martians in your head!! Gimme them martians! I am going to put butter on them!! Martians!! Grrr!!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

10. “The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

11. “I’m not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

12. “It’s cool that people like what I do, but I don’t work for the audience.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

13. “Whoo!! What a day. I’m gonna drink tang until I forget it all.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

14. “In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs – I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that – just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.”

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15. “Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

16. “I don’t want little kids reading my comics.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

17. “But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.”

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18. “I’m definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it’s just what sinks into a person’s brain.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

19. “I don’t go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.”

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20. “Doing something purely for one’s own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

21. “I don’t really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

22. “Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I’ve become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let’s not get into that.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

23. “My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

24. “I’ve excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that’s beside the point. Contentment – they say it’s the ultimate, but I can’t even wish for that. I don’t even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

25. “Dear Die-ary, there’s nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their “discomfort” like a favorite shirt. I can’t say I’m very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can’t help but look forward to where it’s going.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

26. “I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

27. “Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

28. “It’s very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience – and having an audience that’s aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

29. “Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

30. “I’m just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.”

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31. “I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

32. “But I couldn’t draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

33. “After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn’t say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.”

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34. “I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.”

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35. “As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn’t use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.”

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36. “Conspiracy!! And now employing juvenile mongoloid demon babies!! My famous chicken recipe will never be yours!! Grr! Woof!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

37. “The numbing mind-ream of knowing you’re alone not because people won’t accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.”

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38. “Ever since I’m done with Zim everyone thinks that I’m going to go back to comics. I’ve been flooded with emails asking me if I’m working on the new Johnny over and over again.”

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39. “You are all zombie thigh-fat people brought into reanimation by some evil force of forceful evil!”

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40. “I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.”

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41. “At this very moment I’m behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.”

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42. “I don’t like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.”

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43. “All the power to them but I’m not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.”

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44. “In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn’t for kids.”

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45. “I don’t particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that’s cool, but I don’t do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.”

— Jhonen Vasquez

46. “Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren’t traditional comics buyers I don’t think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I’m very used to it. I’m not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.”

— Jhonen Vasquez