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

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 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.

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

Merry Christmas!

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other

Broken hearts are like cuts you hate them but you have them.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

I think a lot of ex-addicts. They find a lot of humor in what they did because they lived through it.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?