I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no reason not to share it immediately.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.