I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

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I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

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I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

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