My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!

Make requests, not demands.example: “please” kill that zombie honey, I’m out of bullets.

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.