I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

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.