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

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

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.