I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
People get really caught up in their own trips.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
You ever try to go a day without judgment?
The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
I wanted to be a painter.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.
As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
People are essentially red meat. They are.
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
That's not so important to me, that time thing.
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
