You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

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

Look beyond yourself.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.