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

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.

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.

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.

And fetch some straw.We’ll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn’t sleep soft tonight.”“Straw. I love luxury.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

There's a Viper in Mizville!

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.