I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.