In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.