Quotes from Chris Ware

Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.

The sound of One Lung filling with water drowned out by wave after wave of a million buzzing insects an invisible chorus that only knows how to sing the last letter of the alphabet.

Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda

I mean, if all we are is bundles of energy... what is a 'hug' anyway?... and how can we ever really touch each other?

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

the nest is agiggle with excitement.

P]eople, who seek the companionship of like minds and bodies, cannot simply be thrown together and expect to thrive.

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

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.