Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does. - Joey Comeau

...You'll never find someone calling A Softer World good natured. I don't think we do a completely bleak comic, but good natured just isn't a way you could ever describe it. Or my novels. Not the way I want.

The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.

...There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.