There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt

Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?