“The only thing I want to be famous for is inventing a nervous-breakdown gun. You could just shoot it at someone and they’d have a nervous breakdown and start sobbing, in fetal position. Someone like Slobodan Milosevic—we don’t have to kill him. Just give him a nervous breakdown.”

—Lynda Barry, Barefoot on the shag, an interview at Salon.com, May 18, 1999.