Daniel Clowes

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

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

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.

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

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

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

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.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.