I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

I never said I'd support Paul Ryan. I'm giving it very serious consideration.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.