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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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!' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My childhood is always going to limit me. "