I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

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

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

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.

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