People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

Having to fight for the thing you want doesn't mean you deserve it any less.

But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.

I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.

I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

I'm the type of person that likes to give people a hard time, and I enjoy doing little pranks. If I see someone getting a little aroused I have to keep pushing that button.