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" I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. "

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" 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?' "

" It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder. "

" I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. "

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

" My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable. "

" Love will make a way out of no way. "

" I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. "

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

" Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror. "

" Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet. "

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "

" I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. "

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

" When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!' "

" If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am about as detailed as a shadow. "

" There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work. "

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

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

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

" I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back. "

" The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. "

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

" Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' "

" 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. "

" My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. "

" If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. "