Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Death is misery! The lifeless person was once full of life.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

You can't always let people do their own thing.

I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.