“Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I tho...”

“I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep thos...”

“For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy e...”

“When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science...”

“I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.”

“I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.”

“I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my...”

“My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right pers...”

“Hope is a curious thing. You always seem to loose it when you most need it.”

“There are things that make no sense,that seem unreal,that cant be grasped or understoodor explained,that maybe dont even existAnd still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.I...”

“Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!”

“When you have an idea about something, let begin to work on it to bring it to life”

“Money can bring the children into places of power and influence”

“Become great in Gods eyes so as to bring freedom to your people”