It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

Another breath, left to translate

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.