The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

Your heart is my piñata.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.