At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.