She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

I love to scare the already terrified assholes.

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.