Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.

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

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

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