It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw co….

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working..

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing..

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost l….

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco..

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's ….

I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so ….

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that ….

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I m….

I originally just wanted to be an artist..

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of..

I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mist….

I try personally not to be nostalgic..

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace..

I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too se….

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assh….

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minu….

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and tha….

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems ve….

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-sch….