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.

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

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

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

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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.