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.

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.

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

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them.

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.

He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he growled, his burr thickening.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.