I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

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 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.

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.

Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.

It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so