Lynda Barry

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.