It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Both believers and unbelievers go through temptations

On the way toward success, obstacles are the barrier to build the power of the mind.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.