“I'm a barrelful of hate! Come open me up!”

“You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.”

“No doubt about it! I gotta get a new ass!”

“If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.”

“Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!”

“I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?”

“I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.”