It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys