Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

What is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

Gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.