And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Not even need and love can defeat fate...

It was all cheese and applause.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!