"I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope."

“My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.”

Source : "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

“I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot.”

Source : "The Trouble With Drawing Dick Cheney". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. September 10, 2006.

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.”

“The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5

“Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

“Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.”

“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”