The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

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

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.