I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

Making night hideous.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Very few people do covers of my tunes.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

I think the obstacles are the same as the opportunities, is the way we like to look at them.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

I just always had energy and my energy came from G-O-D! But I never needed anyone to get me going because I always had that energy.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.