I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

Innocence is a better world.

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.