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.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

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

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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