When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?

No horrific thing done by a people today is ever justified by what horrible things people have done before.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.