There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.

There's something final about saying you were married once. It's like saying you were dead once. It shuts them up.