I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.