“I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all about emotion, but yeah, so many times, I've been to doctors trying to pinpoint what it was exactly and finally it just went away.” TryingWould BeCertainEmotionDoctorsYeahIllnessBaggage Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“I think a lot of people get into what they're eating. Yes, it's important, but at some point, let's think about what we're feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you're eating and the exercise that you're doing. I think it's good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you're feeling when you wake up in the morning.” PeopleThinkingImportantFeelingsBitsMorningIssuesExerciseEatingWake UpControl Issues Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.” LittlesBookRealizingFascinatingLittle Time Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.” ThinkingWantFeelsTryingSometimesEasyBalanceLimitsComfortable Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. It's worked, up until now. Now these papers can't afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.” PeopleWorldLongAmericaGoneColorPaperTraditionSellsNewspapersComicBudgetsAdsPapersComic Strips Author:Ben Katchor
“Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.” ThinkingFeelsTryingHas BeensMomentsTogetherPastCertainStuffToo MuchStoresEvokeGreat TimesAntiques Author:Ben Katchor
“I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.” PeopleThinkingWarWould BeAppreciationNuclearOccupationMinorsNuclear WarJust Be Happy Author:Ben Katchor
“A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.” IfsThinkingShouldStoriesRunningFilmInterestDealsNovelMovementEasierIllusionBlastDense Author:Ben Katchor
“Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.” FallInterestingLevelsNovelReally Interesting Author:Ben Katchor
“You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.” IfsKnowsNeedsLeftKnow HowKnowingLuckNewspapersGood LuckMisleadCaptionAnnotation Author:Ben Katchor