Put a little fence around it!

You’re my friends now. We’re having soft tacos later.

My name is Catbug. What’s yours?

Throw a blanket over it!

Yeah! Everything is okay!

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down.

I'm Catbug!

Yeah but I don’t know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

I don’t think so. Beth didn’t get any presents.

Ahhh! Impossibear has a gas powered stick!

Pony Lords, jump for your lives—AAH!

You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war!

In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.