I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.