I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something….

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency….

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man wh….

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or s….

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?.

The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings..

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together..

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure.

I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's alway….

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me..

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word ….

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!.

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I w….

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a c….

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 pa….

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death..

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinit….

I'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitt….

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl..

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body..

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.