“Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.”

The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.

I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.

And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.

Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.

I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.

I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.

I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.