In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

We're physiologically wired differently.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.