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.

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

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.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.