I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

We don't seek God's power, we seek His presence. His power & everything else we need is always found in His presence.

This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.