You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and nails and bottle caps and jar lids – the drawer of jar lids! Why? Because they're made of metal and maybe there'll be another war and we'll need the metal. A friend of mine – I quote him in the book – says, 'You have found the source of the river eBay.'

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.