There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.

I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.