To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.