Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

You're alive because of love. You're made of love.

I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.

New things are always ugly.