As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.