"If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues."

“I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.”

“A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.”

Source : Parade Magazine, May 13, 2007.

“I'm not trying to create a stand-in or avatar with whom the reader can identify, but separate, believable characters with distinct personalities; I'm trying to place the reader more in the role of observer rather than that of participant. I think this approach comes out of my own personal desire and struggle to understand our world, and the complex interactions of people with one another and their environment. My work is an improvised exploration of this complexity, as opposed to a structured, plot-driven narrative.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

“I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.”

“I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.”

“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

Source : 'Reginald' (1904) 'Reginald's Choir Treat'

“It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.”

“Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.”

Source : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.82