I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I've Got the World on a String.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.