All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

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.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.