Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.