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

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.

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.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

maybe someday, you will look back and smile because it was all worth it

The word "seek" is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love, DO it - BE it!

I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.