Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

The sky is not my limit...I am.

Love is a great beautifier.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

To me, sweat is workout bliss.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.