When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
To live is to war with trolls.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i. e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.