Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

I think what a family is shouldn't be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing, " Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.