Ben Katchor Quotations

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

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

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

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

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

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.

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

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.

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

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