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

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

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.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

She has given me a way out.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.