If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

Girls are like slugs - they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.