The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.

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.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.