In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.