It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Peter would not have been successful if God had not helped him

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

Life is serious, motherhood should be fun.

It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.