Just go out there and get your heart broken in, so it'll be ready when you really need it.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!

My mother once said if you can’t handle the fact that your world-view might be entirely inaccurate, you are not worthy of believing in it.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.