We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

What year is it in your imagination?

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

She is a woman. No matter how hard you think she has grown, she always has her softer parts. Feel her there.

Hospitals are better and more reliable than miracle crusades.

I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability to remain honorable, no matter what has been done to us. No matter what horrors we've witnessed.