It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in