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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I don't read much of anything online.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.

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

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.

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

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

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

So what have you guys been up to?"
"Nothing, worshipping Satan.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.

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 never feel there's anything I can't do.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

Pussey, you're worse than a hundred girls!

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

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

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship ... I thought about my friends and about how I didn't have any ...

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

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

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.