I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery..

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils..

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that..

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat..

To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about r….

The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the p….

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun..

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth..

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person..

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke..

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works.".

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying..

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people h….

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way..

People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that m….

The thing that was interesting to me about Relationshapes - as opposed to most of the other cartoons I've ever made - was I knew when one worked and ….

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent..

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing..

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real..

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I u….