Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

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.

We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.