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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
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"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."

"I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am."

"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."

"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."

"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."

"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."

"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."

"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."
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"That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project."

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

"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."

"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."

"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."

"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
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