Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

There is only one universal passion fear.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.