"I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things."

"My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it."

"You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up."

"Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it."

"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

"A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction."

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."