Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.