I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

You're your own play.

The Television is the monster of hell.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.