Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

I just became one with my browser software.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.