Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes
Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day. . .
This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.