It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Men are as faithful as their options.

If you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.