The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.

It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.