You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Don’t let either hate or evil conquer you.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.