Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

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

Create history and write your own.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Don't explain, enjoy.