I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.

I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

I like being around funny people.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

I think it's really important to have a sense of humor.

In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.

What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.