Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.

I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go, 'Are you crazy? I could read my stuff forever!' Now it's a little harder.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.

I could never take orders from anyone.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

What you think about the most drives your reality; control your thoughts to manage your reality.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

Half the time on vacation, if I'm in a bikini, I allow myself - I eat, like, waffles and pancakes for breakfast, so that's me after, like, a big meal. I'm not the one that's like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to be on the beach.'

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.