You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I like to follow my own muse.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.

Human beings all mimic each other.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.