"I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit."

“| Interview with New York Times Magazine”

“I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.”

“I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.”

“Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.”

“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”

“There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.”