I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.

The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.