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"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
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"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
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"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
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"A child is child."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."
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"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"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."
Life
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
Father
"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."
Fight
"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them."
Love
"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
Childhood
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
Mother
"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
Mother
"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
Age
"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
Men
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