There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

I have so very much. I have so very little.

Everybody has their story to tell.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

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