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

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.

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.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Elizabeth poured the brewskilicious foam over her aforementioned bodalicious huzza-huzzas and Wahwahzoozie." — Bats 2015

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.