“It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether w...” — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Quote

“It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.”

“It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it everywhere. Readers sometimes think this world is so different; on the one hand, they feel connected to the people I'm writing about, and on the other hand, they're saying their lives are a world away.”

“Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.”

“Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.”

“I like to say, 'You get as much story as you can take.' But you have to effectively render it.”

“Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.”

“It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.”

“I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'”

“With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.”

“A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't mean it will.”

“I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.”

“The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.”