He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.