When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

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.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

It's psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you're trying to depict. You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.