There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Attraction is not a choice.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

I got to keep a clip for my hair. It had a pretty little dragonfly on it and I got to keep it

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

You can't let haters stop you.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.