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

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

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.

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.

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

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

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.