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 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.

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 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.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Focusing on what you don’t want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

Love looks like something.

We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.