I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger's obsession.

Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.