We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

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.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

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