My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it if one expects to do anything more than produce a book or a story that is exactly as one wants it to be.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.