I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

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 not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.