I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.