On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.