I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.