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

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

There's more to this world than just people, you know.

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.