Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.