The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

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.

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

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.

Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

I guess there are some things you never get used to.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.