The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.