Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.

You can't start the next chapter of your life

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

What you believe and focus on becomes your reality.

For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.

Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover.

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.