Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
