Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

Long live the dreamer inside of me.

Reflect, reflect.

We can never controlThe World, but from Ourselves we are the Master.Jan Jansen

God grant us patience!

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.