Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.