Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.