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.

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

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.

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you.

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.