I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

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

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.