You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I don't read much of anything online.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to like disco.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.