The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

When an attractive but ALOOF ("cool") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.