You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
I don’t think that I can change the world, I just want to punch it up a little.
Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.
Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It’s harsh and cruel. But that’s why there’s us. Champions. It doesn’t matter where we come from, what we’ve done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.
Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
People feel removed from sexism. ‘I’m not a sexist, but I’m not a feminist.’ They think there’s this fuzzy middle ground. There’s no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don’t. It’s that simple.
Most people don’t see Hamlet as an old bald guy.
Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.
Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.
I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that’s what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet – it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
I write to be the characters that I am not.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.