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" 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. "

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" Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. "

" The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. "

" Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God. "

" For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. "

" 'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories. "

" I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! "

" I go to work the minute I open my eyes. "

" Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? "

" Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. "

" I am about as detailed as a shadow. "

" When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man! "

" The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock. "

" I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. "

" I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. "

" I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. "

" I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. "

" In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it. "

" No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them. "

" Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves. "

" When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward. "

" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "

" I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. "

" The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. "

" We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. "

" It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous. "

" When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?' "

" I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. "

" People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. "

" If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. "

" I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. "