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.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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.

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.