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

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I am about as detailed as a shadow. "

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

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

" Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "