Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

If I'm off the stage after two or three years I get itchy and I have to get back onstage.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.