Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.