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

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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.

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.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?