Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

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.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

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