5 quotes found
“I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.”
“I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.”
“As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like youre a kid again, poking around in your pa...”
“I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is j...”
“I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.”
