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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Lynda Barry

Street

Class

Culture

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

" 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! "

" It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Lynda Barry

Ride

Horror

" 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. "

Lynda Barry

Years

Working

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Lynda Barry

Effortless

I Am

" 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. "

Lynda Barry

Kind

People

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

" Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. "

Lynda Barry

Kind

Off

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

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "

Lynda Barry

Limit

Going

" 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. "

" I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. "