For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as prof…

- Ellen Forney

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

- Ellen Forney

A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes b…

- Ellen Forney

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

- Ellen Forney

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

- Ellen Forney

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

- Ellen Forney

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

- Ellen Forney