Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.