I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

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 think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.