I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator

The purpose of life is to glorify God through our various pursuits.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

Swift doth young Love flee, And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.