Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

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.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

Believe and be confirmed.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

I am daily making myself what I am.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.