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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection?

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

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

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chinztiest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

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

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.

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.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

The thing I call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

What is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

Love will make a way out of no way.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

You may be a lady but your are still the man!

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

Once i knew the blinking cat could not really blink, was just paper and ink.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

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

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.

Are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

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.

Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world!

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

You'll never call him Fifi again.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

I didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other.

What year is it in your imagination?

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

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

Some lights shine without any flashing. Others flash on and off.

And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.

[Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool!
Take me on!
Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants!
You think I'm playin'?

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!