Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

If we dont change we dont grow. If we dont grow we arent really living.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

Have you ever felt really close to someone' So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins'

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

When the doors of opportunity swing open we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

Today I begin new life. I will greet this Monday with love in my heart.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

I'm a history nut.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.