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.

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

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.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

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