It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

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

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then