Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

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.

I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.