It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.