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

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 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.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.