“I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississipp...” — Susan Straight Quote

“I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.”

“My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.”

“I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.”

“The goal of isolating extremists and making them unwelcome in Muslim communities has been abandoned.”

“Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.”

“I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.”