I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

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

Awesome, Monk have a brother from the film Monk 2000, however... what makes you think that film and reality are different?

I can't not put humor in a book.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

I was honored when [Donald Trump] asked me to chair the transition effort.

Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful.

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.