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

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

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

" In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. "

" 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!' "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. "

" 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. "

" My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. "

" 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?' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead. "

" 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. "

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

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "

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