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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. "

" When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. "

" For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures. "

" 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. "

" I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth. "

" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? "

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

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

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

" 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. "