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

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.

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

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.