It's Our Very Capacity For Self-consciousness That

Even Drawing Gray Hair At All Is Difficult To Render In Black And White.

Drawing Is More Fun To Me Than Writing. I Think It's Interesting To Talk To Different Cartoonists About How Those Activities Work For Them. I'm A Very Writerly Cartoonist. I Certainly Spend More Time On The Writing Than I Do On The Drawing, Even Though The Drawing, Of Course, Is Very Time-consuming.

If There Was Ever A Bigger Pansy Than My Father, It Was Marcel Proust.

It Was A Vicious Cycle, Though. The More Gratification We Found In Our Own Geniuses, The More Isolated We Grew.

Although I Am Good At Enumerating My Father’s Flaws, It’s Hard For Me To Sustain Much Anger At Him. I Expect This Is Partly Because He’s Dead, And Partly Because The Bar Is Lower For Fathers Than It Is For Mothers.