Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home.

[Paper Girls] needed to have a certain kind of almost neon style to it, but at the same time we wanted also to show the modern perspective that we had.

We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

I don't think I've ever worked on a project [Paper Girls] that is this personal. We draw so much on our memories of growing and we're putting so much of our present day into it as well.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.