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

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.

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.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

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

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.

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