But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

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

Love should mean, never having to ask, "Do You Love Me"?

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

One day you'll love me, the way I love you. One day you'll think of me the way I think of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cry for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.