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.

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

When an attractive but ALOOF ("cool") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

You'll never call him Fifi again.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.