Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

We're going to put sanity back into the White House.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

If we are to transform the world, we must first begin by transforming ourselves.

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

I - to say the word "scared", I don't know if I'm scared because, I have faith that we will see this through. But I take Donald Trump seriously. He has literally millions of people who support him.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.