All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.