I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.

The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, "This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy."

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.