Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion.

God has something great in you that can take you very far in life if you consistently push hard and long enough, despite your fears and doubts.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Now life is imitating art.