God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.