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

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

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

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.

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.

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

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