With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

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.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.