I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.

Freedom does not mean license.

I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.