Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

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

I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.