Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.