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

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.

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.

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.

Truth is a Person

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.