When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.