I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.

If you make lots of little changes to your lifestyle, you’ll need to make time to have some fun too, otherwise life can get a little boring.

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.