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.

More Quotes by Daniel Clowes

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

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

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

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