Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

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.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

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.