I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.