I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.