I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.

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

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

You can't live and write at the same time.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.