The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
If you can't do something smart, do something right.
You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame.
If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.
Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.