I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.