It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.