Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

Dying isn’t like living

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.