I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!