People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.

A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.