In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are.

Get money, have fun and treat a woman like she's a queen

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.