Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.