I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

God does not need just ability but availability

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

If you are giving back, you took too much.

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.