When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

Today's vision is tomorrow's reality.

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.