In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I don't count my blessings, because just being alive is good enough for me.

You are not going to be the girl I’m going to marry are you? You are going to be the girl that got away.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.