When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.