I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly

You can be happy where you are.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Half a league Half a league Half a league onward With a hey-nonny-nonny And a hot cha-cha.

"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn.