I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.