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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.