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.

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

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.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

I'm not a big disco guy.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account