No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.
I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.
The power of making war often prevents it.