You'll never call him Fifi again.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.