I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.