Daniel Clowes

“Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.”

“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!”

“You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.”

“Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.”

“When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.”

“In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.”

“Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!”

“Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.”

“You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.”

“Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.”

“I don't read much of anything online.”

“I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.”

“For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.”

“It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.”

“That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!”

“I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.”

“I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.”

“Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.”

“I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.”

“Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.”