 Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. |
| 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 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. |
| I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? |
| In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. |
| 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. |
| People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. |
| Love will make a way out of no way. |
| I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking. |
| The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. |
| If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. |
| 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. |
| Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I go to work the minute I open my eyes. |
| Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Topics: Funny Love |
| Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? |
| I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. |
