I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.