Bryan Lee O'Malley

“Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.”

“I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.”

“The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'”

“'Seconds' is very much about reaching out for the next thing after you've figured out the first thing.”

“For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.”

“Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.”

“I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.”

“There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.”

“After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”

“I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.”

“Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.”

“I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?”

“I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.”

“Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.”

“'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.”

“'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.”

“I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.”

“What kind of tea do you want?""There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?""Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea, Green Tea with Lemon, Green Tea with Lemon and Honey, Liver Disaster, Ginger with Honey, Ginger Without Honey, Vanilla Almond, White Truffle Coconut, Chamomile, Blueberry Chamomile, Decaf Vanilla Walnut, Constant Comment and Earl Grey."-"I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up?”

“Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.”

“I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.”