If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.