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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

" Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "