Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

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.

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.