My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.

I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.