People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.
It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how near or far the heavenly bodies are from our own planet. I know our own place in the universe. I can feel the vastness of it inside myself. I began to realize with each passing fact what a wonderful and awesome place the universe is, and that helped me in comics because I was looking for the awesome.
I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out. . . as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
I grew up in the countryside. But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. "