With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

We are here on planet Earth to learn lessons and to grow in loving knowledge.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.