"I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book."

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."

"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."

"But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'"