In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

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

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

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

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