America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

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

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.