I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"

Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.