Dennis the Menace

People like Dennis the Menace, who naturally grate on us, who assault our sensibilities, really help to point out the loci of unloveliness in our own hearts.

Ruminations on Mr. Wilson 2009

Young journalists—of whom I was one in 1985—trying to sell it to their editors were told, “Fuck off, we just wrote about Dennis the Menace; why would we write about Art Spiegelman and Frank Miller?”

We are Stardust, we are golden 2007