I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.