Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

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

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.

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.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.