The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Don't be too obvious about it.

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.