Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.