I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

I want to make a difference.

And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest of my life But that wouldn't be half enough

It was my fans who made me a star.