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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am about as detailed as a shadow. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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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? "