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.

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

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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.