I Think You Can Do

I Felt More Alone That Week Than Any. Sometimes I'd Feel A Body Lying Next To Me Like An Amputee Feels A Phantom Limb. All I Did Was Think About Jennie Gerhardt And Alice Quinn And All The Decades Of People I Had Known. The More I Thought, The More I Felt Like Crying. Life Seemed So Sweet And So Sad, And So Hard To Let Go Of In The End. But Hey, Man, Every Day Is A Brand New Deal, Right? Just Keep On Working And Something's Bound To Turn Up.

I Thought I Had A Great Opportunity When I Started Doing My Comic Book In 1972. I Thought There Was So Much Territory To Work In.

My Parents' Work Ethic Amazed Me. How Could They Put In Such Long Hours, Day After Day? Part Of The Reason Was To Keep The Family Going - To Keep Me Going. I Realized That, Although We Had Different Values Derived From Different Cultures And Wouldn't Agree On Certain Issues, They Were Good People, Incredible People, And I Loved And Respected Them.

American Splendor Is Just An Ongoing Journal. It's An Ongoing Autobiography. I Started It When I Was In My Early 30s, And I Just Keep Going.

I Think You Can Find All The Elements That You Can Find In Great Literature In Mundane Experiences.