I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

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.

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

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.

Work always makes a difference.

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.