It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

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.

Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.

Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.