Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

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.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.