I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

You have to stop and freeze the moment, " he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Beauty is everything and beauty is within, however, if you don't feel good on the outside, then you will not look good.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.