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

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

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

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.

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.

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

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