Chris Ware

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have. ”

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ”

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children. ”

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ”

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. ”

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. ”

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. ”

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ”

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows. ”

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done. ”