I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

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